Cartouche

Definition: Cartouche

Cartouche

Noun

1. A cartridge (usually with paper casing).

Date "cartouche" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)

Synonym: Cartouche

Synonym: cartouch (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Cartouche

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Arms	Ammunition; powder, powder and shot; cartridge; ball cartridge, cartouche, fireball; "villainous saltpeter"; dumdum bullet.
Ornament	Pattern, diaper, powdering, paneling, graining, pargeting; detail; repousse (convexity); texture; richness; tracery, molding, fillet, listel, strapwork, coquillage, flourish, fleur-de-lis, arabesque, fret, anthemion; egg and tongue, egg and dart; astragal, zigzag, acanthus, cartouche; pilaster; (projection); bead, beading; champleve ware, cloisonne ware; frost work, Moresque, Morisco, tooling.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Cartouche

Non-English Usage: "Cartouche" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (cartridge).

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Modern Usage: Cartouche

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Cartouche (1962)

Le Avventure di Cartouche (1954)

Cartouche roi de Paris (1948)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Cartouche

Domain	Title
Books	Cartoon Cartouche (reference) Cartouche (reference) CARTOUCHE CARDS (reference) De vrouwelyke Cartouche (reference) Histoires curieuses et véritables de Cartouche et de Mandrin (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Cartouche (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Prophete Cartouche Ramatoula (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Cartouche

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Use in Literature: Cartouche

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Cartouche would speak Hebrew to Lacenaire.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Cartouche

"Cartouche" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cartouche" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	13	97,576

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cartouche

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
cartouche	169	cartouche tutankhamuns	3
egyptian cartouche	21	silver cartouche	3
cartouche encre	16	cartouche encre hp	3
cartouche d encre	14	cartouche ring	3
cartouche imprimante	9	cartouche toner	3
cartouche jewelry	7	cartouche compatible	3
cartouche laser	6	egyptian and cartouche and jewelry	2
cartouche de destruction	6	cartouche make	2
cartouche hp	6	ancient cartouche egyptian	2
cartouche pendant	5	cartouche de filtre	2
cartouche font	5	cartouche compatible site	2
cartouche filtrante	4	cartouche d encre jet	2
cartouche necklace	4	cartouche egyptian font	2
gold cartouche	4	hieroglyphics cartouche	2
cartouche citron	4	canon cartouche	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Cartouche

Language		Translations for "cartouche"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏خرطوشة (cartridge). (various references)

Bulgarian		орнамент във форма на свитък, декоративна табелка с надпис. (various references)

Danish		kartoucheværk, kartouche. (various references)

Dutch		randversiering loofwerk. (various references)

French		cartouche (carton, cartridge, magnetic tape cartridge, phono cartridge). (various references)

German		Zierrahmen (rand), kartusche (cartridge). (various references)

Hungarian		pajzsdísz. (various references)

Italian		cartoccio (bag, chimney, cone, cornet, paperbag, screw, wrapper), cartiglio. (various references)

Manx		cartoosh. (various references)

Pig Latin		artouchecay

Portuguese		cártula. (various references)

Romanian		cartuşierã (cartridge pouch, pouch), cartuş (cartridge, roundel, shot). (various references)

Russian		картуш, лядунка. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		kartuš. (various references)

Spanish		rasgo ornamental en espiral. (various references)

Swedish		kardus. (various references)

Turkish		kabartma resim veya şekil (cartouch). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Cartouche

Derivations
	Words beginning with "cartouche": cartouches. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Cartouche" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Harrouchi, kartouche, Latouche. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Cartouche

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-h-o-r-t-u"
	-1 letter: accouter, accoutre, cartouch, outreach.
	-2 letters: caroche, catcher, catechu, coacher, coucher, couther, crochet, outhear, outrace, retouch, toucher.
	-3 letters: accrue, acuter, author, cachet, cachou, caroch, chorea, coater, coteau, couter, cratch, crotch, crouch, crutch, curate, hector, ochrea, orache, rachet, rochet, rotche, rouche, tocher, touche, troche, turaco.
	-4 letters: actor, acute, cache, caret, carte, catch, cater, chare, chart, cheat.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-h-o-r-t-u"
	+1 letter: cartouches.
	+2 letters: euchromatic.
	+3 letters: countermarch.
	+4 letters: counterchange, countercharge.
	+5 letters: counterchanged, counterchanges, countercharged, countercharges, countermarched, countermarches.
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