Crossword clues for cartouches
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cartouch \Car*touch"\, cartouche \car*touche"\, n.; pl. Cartouches. [F. cartouche, It. cartuccia, cartoccio, cornet, cartouch, fr. L. charta paper. See 1st Card, and cf. Cartridge.]
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(Mil.)
A roll or case of paper, etc., holding a charge for a firearm; a cartridge.
A cartridge box.
A wooden case filled with balls, to be shot from a cannon.
A gunner's bag for ammunition.
A military pass for a soldier on furlough.
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(Arch.)
A cantalever, console, corbel, or modillion, which has the form of a scroll of paper.
A tablet for ornament, or for receiving an inscription, formed like a sheet of paper with the edges rolled up; hence, any tablet of ornamental form.
(Egyptian Antiq.) An oval figure on monuments, and in papyri, containing the name of a sovereign.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of cartouche English)
Usage examples of "cartouches".
There were spare cartouches for the infantry, each bag filled with a wooden block drilled to hold cartridges.
It took twenty minutes before the French officer was hauled by a loop of rope to the battlements on the western face, followed by nine precious cartouches of ready ammunition, and it was another ten minutes before Harper and his escort were back with Frederickson.
When cartouches with dot groups appeared - evidently as inscriptions in some unknown and primordial language and alphabet - the depression of the smooth surface was perhaps an inch and a half, and of the dots perhaps a half inch more.
Then we saw a series of cartouches - the continuous band arrangement being frequently interrupted in these late carvings - depicting a constantly growing migration to the nearest refuges of greater warmth - some fleeing to cities under the sea off the far-away coast, and some clambering down through networks of limestone caverns in the hollow hills to the neighboring black abyss of subterrene waters.
The sides were sparsely decorated with cartouches of conventional designs in a late, decadent style.
The decadent cartouches and dadoes telling this story were, as I have said, the latest we could find in our limited search.
The cartouches hung on cords and swung about as he moved, reportedly clacking together and making a racket.
He then pulled one of the cartouches from his bandoleer and poured this powder down the barrel of his musket.
The soldier could carry twenty or even thirty of those paper cartridges in a pouch rather than the cumbersome and noisy wooden cartouches on a bandoleer.
The other possibility is that the half-hearted and scanty decorations, cartouches and inscriptions found by Frankfort could have been placed in the Osireion as part of a renovation and repair operation undertaken in Seti’s time (implying that the structure was by then ancient, as Naville and others had proposed).
On close inspection, however, it rests on the circumstantial evidence of the cartouches and inscriptions which prove nothing.
They also erased the cartouches of Akhenaton, which indicates that they were not random thieves, but officials of the government that had assumed power after his death and wished to obliterate his heresy.
It has, however, everything: the mezzanine with the colonnade and the stairway with a goitre and the cartouches in the form of looped leather belts.
Twenty cartouches for Gavroche meant a provision of cartridges for the barricade.
He lay down, sprang to his feet, hid in the corner of a doorway, then made a bound, disappeared, re-appeared, scampered away, returned, replied to the grape-shot with his thumb at his nose, and, all the while, went on pillaging the cartouches, emptying the cartridge-boxes, and filling his basket.