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  • noun Plural form of cartouche.

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Examples

  • "cartouches" inscribed on the plane surface of the Scarabæus.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various

  • Great arches catch your eye, made of rose sandstone trimmed with smooth gray limestone and highlighted by cartouches of white plaster.

    "Fixer-Upper" Home In Mexico 2008

  • Great arches catch your eye, made of rose sandstone trimmed with smooth gray limestone and highlighted by cartouches of white plaster.

    "Fixer-Upper" Home In Mexico 2008

  • Thutmose III tried to remove all Hatshepsut's cartouches as well as removing the faces of all images in her temple.

    Archive 2010-05-01 Lauri 2010

  • Thutmose III tried to remove all Hatshepsut's cartouches as well as removing the faces of all images in her temple.

    A trip to Luxor Lauri 2010

  • Chez moi, grâce a son équipement dernier cri ultracomplet et évolutif, il devient un ensemble intégré comprenant un accès simultané à mon lecteur de cédérom, à mon lecteur de disquettes et a mon lecteur de cartouches Zip.

    Pro-Consumerist Poet #2 : Kenneth Goldsmith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

  • Features include a "double-height arcade faced with marble, elaborate terra cotta ornamentation on the third story," and "a deep, copper mansard roof with richly ornamented dormers with broken pediments, volutes and cartouches of terra cotta," and an "exuberant Renaissance Revival style [that] complements the dramatic atmosphere of the theater district," according to the Community Board.

    Paramount Hotel, La MaMa Theater and Two Townhouses Landmarked 2009

  • Features include a "double-height arcade faced with marble, elaborate terra cotta ornamentation on the third story," and "a deep, copper mansard roof with richly ornamented dormers with broken pediments, volutes and cartouches of terra cotta," and an "exuberant Renaissance Revival style [that] complements the dramatic atmosphere of the theater district," according to the Community Board.

    Paramount Hotel, La MaMa Theater and Two Townhouses Landmarked 2009

  • DESCRIPTION the ivory discs applied with crowned cartouches enameled in translucent green or red with pellets, stars or crescents on ermine backgrounds, each with blue enamel ribbon suspending a crescent, fitted case

    On Auction: Game Counters Owned by Frank Marshall Jan 2008

  • DESCRIPTION the ivory discs applied with crowned cartouches enameled in translucent green or red with pellets, stars or crescents on ermine backgrounds, each with blue enamel ribbon suspending a crescent, fitted case

    Archive 2008-10-01 Jan 2008

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  • "...in artillery, are made of leather, to sling over the shoulder of the matross, to carry the ammunition from a wagon or a magazine, to the piece." (citation in list description; compare cartouch)

    October 10, 2008