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noun

Cartoon n.

A design or study drawn of the full size, to serve as a model for transferring or copying; used in the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco pantings and the like; as, the cartoons of Raphael.

A large pictorial sketch, as in a journal or magazine; esp. a pictorial caricature; as, the cartoons of "Puck."

Same as comic strip.

A motion picture consisting of a series of frames, each being a photograph of a drawing rather than a frame produced by filming a scene of true action, and in which the objects are displaced slightly in succeeding frames so as to give the appearance of motion when projected as a motion picture on the screen. The types of characters portrayed in such films are often similar or identical to those in a comic strip.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cartoon" Quotes from Famous Books

... September 5, the Charivari—otherwise the daily Parisian Punch—came out with a cartoon designed to sum up the whole period covered by the imperial rule. It depicted France bound hand and foot and placed between the mouths of two cannons, one inscribed "Paris, 1851," and the other "Sedan, 1870"—those ...

— My Days of Adventure - The Fall of France, 1870-71 • Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

... glanced about me my first impression was that by some odd mischance I had got into the wrong room, which idea was fortified by the fact that, instead of an imperial figure clad in splendid robes, a quiet-looking old gentleman, who, except for his dress, might have posed for a cartoon of the accepted American Populist, stood before me. He was dressed in a plain frock-coat, four-in-hand tie, high collar, dark-gray trousers, and patent-leather boots, and was brushing up a silk ...

— Olympian Nights • John Kendrick Bangs

... which I now saw, might be distinguished various expressions similar to those of the audience in the famous cartoon of Paul preaching at Athens. Here sat a zealous and intelligent Calvinist, with brows bent just as much as to indicate profound attention; lips slightly compressed; eyes fixed on the minister with an expression of decent pride, as if sharing the triumph of his argument; the forefinger of ...

— Rob Roy, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

... of the Cary House is a clever cartoon, by William Cooper, of Portland, Oregon, entitled "A mining convention in Placerville;" in which Mr. Bradley is depicted in earnest conversation with a second Mr. Bradley, a third and evidently remonstrant Mr. Bradley ...

— A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country • Thomas Dykes Beasley

... and receives the commission for the cartoon of the "Judgment of Solomon," for the marble pavement of ...

— Luca Signorelli • Maud Cruttwell

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