cartouche
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cartouche. 1. Carved element resembling a sheet of parchment, with its ends or corners rolled, usually carrying an inscription.
2. Ornamental or inscribed
tablet, as in a mural funerary memorial, with an elaborate
scroll-like frame resembling curling pieces of parchment, common in
Baroque work.
3. Any ornament in the form of a scroll, such as a
console or
Ionic volute.
4. Ancon,
console modillion,
mutule, or
truss supporting an
entablature instead of a column, especially an ornamented key-stone of an arch touching the entablature above.
5. Ring-like frame around figures or characters expressing Royal or Divine titles in Egyptian hieroglyphs.
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