0 a drawing or piece of stone that looks like a scroll (= a long roll of paper) with the ends rolled up, often with writing on it and used as a decoration --
He also started as a designer sketching cartouches, garlands and tendrils.
The tower was surmounted by a lead covered dome, decorated with cartouches.
The middle zone is characterized by smooth granite with windows topped with pediments and cartouches (decorative ovals).
Scene includes cartouches and the princesses carry wands.
The cartouches, showing the characters' dialogue, are an archaic element, perhaps required by the commissioner himself as a complement of the moral message.
Above each portal are tall windows of the piano nobile, made distinct from the other windows by their reversed segmented pediments with insert cartouches.
At the top of its stairs is an iron and glass vestibule with intricate carved cartouches, scrolls, foliage and circles.
The seventh story is capped by an ornamental terra-cotta stringcourse (reeds bound by bay leaf garlands) with central and end cartouches.
