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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 435 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CARTOUCHE (a See also:French word adapted from the Ital. cartoccio, a See also:roll of See also:paper, Med See also:Lat. carta, for charta, paper)  , originally a See also:roll of See also:paper, See also:parchment or other material, containing the See also:charge of See also:powder and shot for a firearm, a See also:cartridge (q.v.), which itself is a corruption of See also:cartouche . The See also:term was applied in See also:architecture to various forms of ornamentation taking the shape of a See also:scroll, such as the See also:volute of an Ionian See also:capital . It was particularly used of a sculptured tablet in the shape of a partly unrolled scroll on which could be placed an inscription or See also:device . Such " See also:car-touches " are used for titles, &c., on engravings of maps, plans, and the like . The arms of the popes and ecclesiastics of high See also:birth were See also:borne on an See also:oval cartouche; and it is thus particularly applied, in See also:Egyptian See also:archaeology, for the oblong device with oval ends, enclosing the names of royal personages on the monuments . It is properly an oval formed by a rope knotted at one end . An See also:amulet of similar shape, as the See also:symbol of the " name," was worn by men and See also:women as a See also:protection against the blotting out of the name after See also:death .

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