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cartouche

noun

car·​touche kär-ˈtüsh How to pronounce cartouche (audio)
variants or less commonly cartouch
1
: a gun cartridge with a paper case
2
: an ornate or ornamental frame
3
: an oval or oblong figure (as on ancient Egyptian monuments) enclosing a sovereign's name

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web It is decorated with marquetry ribbons, foliage and festoons, and flanking Jasperware plaques set in a rectangle cartouche. Natasha Gural, Forbes, 28 June 2022 Wagner’s cartouche — an ornate plaster casting that was one of three in the Fox — is the size of the front of a Volkswagen Beetle. Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Nov. 2021 The bottle’s label has an appealing throwback design, with a version of the cartouche that originally appeared on age statement Jack a century ago. Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 17 Sep. 2021 The label also looks strikingly like the historic bottle, recreating the vintage gold cartouche on the label. Gina Pace, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021 Some mud bricks bear the seal of King Amenhotep III’s cartouche, or name insignia. Fox News, 11 Apr. 2021 In the garden, my father sits in his wheelchair garlanded by summer hibiscus like a saint in a seventeenth-century cartouche. Sarah Holland-batt, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021 Several seals, which were used to seal papyri, have been found bearing her royal cartouche. National Geographic, 17 Sep. 2020 Included among the items were gold amulets, a relief with the cartouche of a Ptolemaic king, wooden tomb model figures, and two Roman period funerary stelae. Fox News, 8 July 2020 See More

Word History

Etymology

Middle French cartouche, from Italian cartoccio, from carta

First Known Use

1548, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of cartouche was in 1548

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