Also (7 catouche, carthouse, 8 catooch), 7–9 cartouch, See also CARTOUSE, CARTRIDGE. [a. F. cartouche fem. ‘the cornet of paper wherein … grocers put the parcels they retaile; also, a Cartouch, or full charge, for a pistoll put vp within a little paper to be the readier for vse, etc.’ (Cotgr.). Also = ‘Cartoche, a cartridge, or roll (in Architecture)’ (Cotgr.): the latter is in mod.Fr. cartouche, masc. a. It. cartoccio ‘a coffin of paper’ (Florio), a ‘cornet’ of paper, augmentative f. carta:—med.L. carta, L. charta paper; see CARTE1, CHART.]
I. Fr. cartouche fem.
1. a. Mil. A roll or case of paper, parchment, etc., containing the charge of powder and shot for a gun or pistol; a cartridge. ? Obs. Also, in Pyrotechnics, the case containing the inflammable materials in some fireworks.
1611. Cotgr. (see above).
1625. J. Glanville, Voy. Cadiz, 20. To fill Carthouses of powder.
1662. Phillips, Cartouch (Fr.), a charge of powder and shot, made ready in a paper, called also a Carthrage [ed. 1678: also sometimes mistakenly used for Carthrage].
1704. J. Harris, Lex. Techn., Cartouche, the same with Cartridge.
1718. J. Chamberlayne, Relig. Philos., II. xxi. § 24. A little Cartouch or Case, of that kind which they use in making Squibs in common Fire-Works.
1725. De Foe, Voy. round World (1840), 257. A harquebuss, or short musket, with cartouches, powder, and ball.
1850. Mazzini, Royalty & Repub., 37. Women were rivals in the enthusiasm … they prepared cartouches.
† b. A case of wood, pasteboard, etc., containing iron balls, to be fired from a cannon or howitzer.
1611. Cotgr., Cartouche, also, a peece of pastboord or thick paper stuffed (in a round or pudding like forme) with bullets, etc., and to be shot out of a great peece.
1693. Paris Rel. Batt. Landen, 19. Whose Cannon play’d upon them with Cartouches.
1768. Simes, Mil. Medley, Cartouch, a case of wood … holding about four hundred musquet-balls, besides six or eight balls of iron.
c. = Cartridge-box.
1808. J. Barlow, Columb., VII. 595. No cramm’d cartouch their belted back attires.
¶ ‘A ticket of leave or dismission given to a soldier.’ (In mod. Dicts., but app. purely Fr.)
II. = Fr. cartouche masc.
2. Arch. a. A corbel, mutule or modillion. The earlier form was CARTOUSE, q.v. ? Obs.
1726. R. Neve, Builder’s Dict. (1736), Cartooses, Cartouzes, or as some call ’em Cartouches are the same as Modilions … under the cornice at the Eaves of a House … ornaments representing scrolls of paper: But most commonly are flat Members with Wavings for a device.
1762–71. H. Walpole, Vertue’s Anecd. Paint. (1786), II. 50. Three cartouches to support the balcony.
1850. Parker, Gloss. Archit. [see 2 c].
b. Any ornament in the form of a scroll, as the volute of an Ionic capital.
1611. Cotgr., Volute … the writhen circle, or curle tuft that hangs ouer, or sticks out of the chapter of a piller, &c., and is tearmed by our workmen, a Rowle, Cartridge, or Carthouse.
1662. Phillips, Cartouch (F.) … a Roll, with which they adorn the Cornish of a Pillar.
1708. New View Lond., II. 489/2. A white marble monument adorn’d with Cartouches.
1789. P. Smyth, trans. Aldrich’s Archit. (1818), 105. Twisted columns, which are called cartouches.
c. A tablet for an inscription or for ornament, representing a sheet of paper with the ends rolled up; a drawing or figure of the same, for the title of a map, or the like; a drawn framing of an engraving, etc. Often attrib.
a. 1776. J. Granger, Lett. (1805), 69. The roof of this church is painted in cartouches or compartments.
1824. J. Johnson, Typogr., I. 540. The print itself has a large cartouche oval frame, with pinks and gillyflowers issuing from the four corners.
1850. Parker, Gloss. Archit., Cartouch, Cartouche, F., a term adopted from the French for a tablet, either for ornament or to receive an inscription, formed in the resemblance of a sheet of paper with the edges rolled up.
1875. Fortnum, Maiolica, xiii. 146. Panels edged with cartouche ornament.
3. Her. The oval escutcheon of the Pope and ‘churchmen of noble descent.’
1828. Berry, Dict. Heraldry (1830), Cartouche, is an oval shield in which the Popes and churchmen of noble descent in Italy place their armorial bearings.
4. Archæol. Name given to the oval or oblong figures in Egyptian hieroglyphics, inclosing characters expressing royal or divine names or titles.
1830. Q. Rev., May, 118. (Egypt. Antiq.) It was soon found that royal names were inclosed in a sort of oval ring, called by Champollion a cartouche.
1850. Layard, Nineveh, x. 246. Between the figures is a cartouche containing a name in hieroglyphics.
III. Comb. (from sense 1) as cartouche-box = Cartridge-box.
1697. Dampier, Voy., I. 231. Some … that had not waxt up their Cartrage or Catouche Boxes, wet all their Powder.
1711. Lond. Gaz., No. 4850/3. 3 Chests Catooch Boxes.
1753. Hanway, Trav. (1762), I. VII. xciii. 429.
1808. Regul. Service at Sea, VII. ii. § 28. 223. He … is to be very careful that there are not any cartridges left in the cartouch-boxes.
