cartouche
noun
a rounded, convex surface, usually surrounded with carved ornamental scrollwork, for receiving a painted or low-relief decoration, as an escutcheon.
cartouch
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a variation of
cartouche.
Example Sentences
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Now," continued Mr. Keen, "we note the symbol of force again, always present; and, continuing horizontally, a cartouch quite empty except for the midday sun.
From The Tracer of Lost Persons by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
There have been shipped in the whole from Bordeaux 3,400 stand of arms, and from Havre 3,406 cartouch boxes, which I hope have come safely to hand.
From The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20) by Thomas Jefferson
Men killed and ate their dogs, or gnawed their shoes and the leather of their cartouch boxes, to allay the pangs of hunger.
From Vermont A Study of Independence by Rowland E. (Evans) Robinson
Their loins were galled severely by their cartouch boxes.
From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by L. Carroll Judson
Every man filled his cartouch, and then Broady made us take from forty to sixty rounds in the haversacks.
From Personal Recollections of the War of 1861 As Private, Sergeant and Lieutenant in the Sixty-First Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry by Charles Augustus Fuller
