How to Use cartouche in a Sentence

cartouche

noun
  • The Abu Simbel cartouche contained four symbols, one of which was repeated at the end.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Wagner’s cartouche — an ornate plaster casting that was one of three in the Fox — is the size of the front of a Volkswagen Beetle.
    Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Nov. 2021
  • Several seals, which were used to seal papyri, have been found bearing her royal cartouche.
    National Geographic, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Huyot first showed Champollion a cartouche from Abu Simbel.
    Smithsonian, 19 Apr. 2017
  • The label also looks strikingly like the historic bottle, recreating the vintage gold cartouche on the label.
    Gina Pace, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
  • In the garden, my father sits in his wheelchair garlanded by summer hibiscus like a saint in a seventeenth-century cartouche.
    Sarah Holland-Batt, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
  • Included among the items were gold amulets, a relief with the cartouche of a Ptolemaic king, wooden tomb model figures, and two Roman period funerary stelae.
    Fox News, 8 July 2020
  • The bottle’s label has an appealing throwback design, with a version of the cartouche that originally appeared on age statement Jack a century ago.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 17 Sep. 2021
  • But the cartouche’s evident hollowness, not to mention Murillo’s modern dress, insists that the painter has invented this looking-glass marble object as a game or a provocation.
    Jason Farago, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2017
  • It is decorated with marquetry ribbons, foliage and festoons, and flanking Jasperware plaques set in a rectangle cartouche.
    Natasha Gural, Forbes, 28 June 2022

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