Cartoon1. (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.
2. (n.) A large pictorial sketch, as in a journal or magazine; esp. a pictorial caricature; as, the cartoons of Puck.
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