Definitions for cartouche

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cartouche car·touche

Spelling: [kahr-toosh]

IPA: /kɑrˈtuʃ/

Cartouche is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 445 anagrams from letters in cartouche (accehortu).

Definitions for cartouche

noun

1. Architecture. a rounded, convex surface, usually surrounded with carved ornamental scrollwork, for receiving a painted or low-relief decoration, as an escutcheon.
2. an oval or oblong figure, as on ancient Egyptian monuments, enclosing characters that represent the name of a sovereign.
3. the case containing the inflammable materials in certain fireworks.
4. cartridge (def 1).
5. a box for cartridges.

Origin of cartouche

1605-15; Middle French Italian cartoccio, equivalent to cart(a) paper (see carte) + -occio augmentative suffix

Examples for cartouche

You agree that cartouche is your real name and not a nickname?

The name in a cartouche seems to be Ka-kau-ra, which is not that of a known king.

But you have also the soul of cartouche, which is detestable.

It is a cartouche, and those are hieroglyphics—his name in Egyptian.

But my annoyance turned to fury when I learnt that the mask of cartouche was not there.

cartouche, as usual, was fixed upon; and in the tick of his bed, lo!

I shall tell you later when I have deciphered his cartouche.

"Give him another ball," said cartouche; and another was fired into him.

Once upon a time your name was cartouche, but now it is Theophrastus Longuet.

XX, 29, is perhaps a name compounded with that of a king, the latter being in a cartouche.