cartouche
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- noun
- /kɑːrˈtuːʃ/
- Specialized
:
cartela
- The museum showcased an ancient cartouche that contained hieroglyphics representing the pharaoh's name.
- cartouche surrounding
Examples
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Banded by ormolu, the exotic woods of the marquetry top depicted a central cartouche with a detailed musical trophy over a conforming frieze of stylized foliage.
Fiction book (1992) -
Artists often include a cartouche in their paintings to highlight important inscriptions.
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So this is just the lines, the cartouche here and the signature.
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OK, underneath the owl in the cartouche, we have the hat front, the the word for front, which is the front of a line.
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Regard the cartouche.
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The rising sun in the background of the cartouche evokes the dawn of modern imperialism in Africa, advocated by the African Association.
Academic text (1994) -
The cartouche on the 1802 map of Africa by Aaron Arrowsmith illustrates this point (Fig. 6).
Academic text (1994) -
In the Ryuhonji scrolls, the cartouches are mostly brief quotations from the Lotus Sutra corresponding to the associated narrative vignette.
Academic text (2015) -
The Rococo is associated with the past—a deteriorating building, which had obviously once seen brighter days, and a deceased man, whose portrait is encircled by a gilded Rococo frame with a cartouche at the top.
Academic text (2014) -
The ornate cartouche displayed the family crest above the grand entrance of the mansion.
Synonyms
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1.8
A flat pad of paper used for writing or drawing
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cartouche also came to mean an ornamental tablet because artists and builders used a paper-like or framed area to show a decoration or inscription, like putting a message on a 'card'. The name comes from the same root carta ('paper'), which helps explain why a cartouche is a decorative panel or oval for names and designs.