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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cartouch \Car*touch"\, n.; pl {Cartouches}. [F. cartouche, It cartuccia cartoccio cornet, cartouch, fr L. charta paper. See 1st {Card}, and cf {Cartridge}.] 1. (Mil.) a A roll or case of paper, etc., holding a charge for a firearm; a cartridge. b A cartridge box. c A wooden case filled with balls, to be shot from a cannon. d A gunner's bag for ammunition. e A military pass for a soldier on furlough. 2. (Arch.) a A cantalever, console, corbel, or modillion, which has the form of a scroll of paper. b A tablet for ornament, or for receiving an inscription, formed like a sheet of paper with the edges rolled up hence any tablet of ornamental form 3. (Egyptian Antiq.) An oval figure on monuments, and in papyri, containing the name of a sovereign.
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