CARTOUCHE (a

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• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French word adapted from the Ital. cartoccio, a

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• ROLL (O. Fr. rolle, roulle, mod. role, Lat. rotulus, dim. of rota, wheel)
• ROLL, ALFRED PHILIPPE (1846– )

roll of

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• PAPER
• PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

paper, Med

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• LAT

Lat. carta, for charta, paper)  , originally a roll of paper, parchment or other material, containing the charge of powder and shot for a firearm, a cartridge (q.v.), which itself is a corruption of cartouche . The term was applied in architecture to various forms of ornamentation taking the shape of a scroll, such as the volute of an Ionian 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 device . Such " car-touches " are used for titles, &c., on engravings of maps, plans, and the like . The arms of the popes and ecclesiastics of high birth were borne on an oval cartouche; and it is thus particularly applied, in Egyptian 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 amulet of similar shape, as the symbol of the " name," was worn by men and women as a protection against the blotting out of the name after death .