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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They had no pretence to uniform save a belt and cartouch box, and a blanket rolled up tightly and worn like a huge scarf.
From Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812 by W. H. (William Henry) Withrow
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
It was stipulated that "the arms" should be delivered up; and it appeared that several cartouch boxes and other military accoutrements, supposed to be comprehended in the technical term arms, had been detained.
From The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall
The trenches filled with water, and we tried in vain to keep dry the powder in our cartouch boxes.
From A Soldier of Virginia by Burton Egbert Stevenson
And this oval form has existed from the most remote times that we have any knowledge of the cartouch.
From Scarabs The History, Manufacture and Symbolism of the Scarabæus in Ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, Sardinia, Etruria, etc. by Isaac Myer
