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An oval shield sometimes used for the display of heraldic bearings (as of women or of ecclesiastics); An oval or oblong figure (as on ancient Egyptian monuments) enclosing a sovereign's name

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  • We endeavored to eat shoulder-belts and cartouch-boxes, and contrived to swallow some small bits of them.
  • We endeavoured to eat shoulder-belts and cartouch-boxes, and contrived to swallow some small bits of them.
  • And he would tell of a certain pillar of St. Peter's hollowed into a staircase by Bernin, where a cartouch of dynamite was placed.
  • Many of them were distinguished by the representation of a Guillotine in miniature, and a head just severed, on their cartouch-boxes.
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