Car-tōōn', n.

noun

n. [Fr. carton, It. cartone, pasteboard, cartoon, from carta, paper, Lat. charta. See CARD.]

(Paint.) A design drawn on strong paper, to be afterward calked through, and transferred to the fresh plaster of a wall, to be painted in fresco.
A design colored for working in mosaic, tapestry, &c., as the cartoons of Raffaelle at Hampton Court. Elmes.