Noun: cartouche
| Singular | cartouche |
| Plural | cartouches |
Sample Sentences
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Besides the uncial writing on the convex side of the sherd at the top, painted in dull red, on what had once been the lip of the amphora, was the cartouche already mentioned as being on the scarabaeus, which we had also found in the casket. [1887, H. Rider Haggard, chapter 3, in She:]
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In 1762, Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, a French priest who was a scholar of Eastern languages, had made the inspired guess that the cartouches set off words of great importance, such as the names of gods or rulers. [2013, Margalit Fox, The Riddle of the Labyrinth, Profile 2014, page 49:]
Nouns inflected like cartouche
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French cartouche, from Italian cartuccia, from carta, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs). Doublet of cartridge. See: French Nouns '
cartouche', Italian Nouns '
cartuccia', Latin Nouns '
charta', Ancient Greek Nouns '
χάρτης'.