Usage examples (35)

• There are four principal periods of use of cartonnage, each with distinct ingredients and effects
• This mummy is enclosed in what is called a cartonnage, that is a case molded on the figure.
• This cartonnage is impressed all over the arms, shoulders and head-dress, with a reticulated sexagonal pattern, which gives the surface the appearance of being honey-combed.
• Dr. Jesse Chusid said that while the mummy's body wrap of linen covered in plaster, called cartonnage, bore the shape of a woman, the body within had the anatomy of a man.