cockade
[ko-keyd]
- a rosette, knot of ribbon, etc., usually worn on the hat as part of a uniform, as a badge of office, or the like.
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Origin of cockade
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A grass-green frock-coat, too, bound with gold; and a cockade in your hat!'
Life And Adventures Of Martin ChuzzlewitCharles Dickens
Also it had given them a cockade, of red and blue, the colours of Paris.
ScaramoucheRafael Sabatini
And then he looked at the sash and the cockade, and hesitated, apparently at a loss.
ScaramoucheRafael Sabatini
He had shot the Colonel of the Swiss Guards through his cockade.
BurlesquesWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
And am I really to become a midshipman, and wear a cockade in my hat, and a dirk by my side?
Paddy FinnW. H. G. Kingston
cockade
- a feather or ribbon worn on military headwear
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Word Origin
C18: changed from earlier cockard, from French cocarde, feminine of cocard arrogant, strutting, from coq cock 1
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Word Origin and History for cockade
n.
1709, earlier cockard (1650s), from French cocarde (16c.), fem. of cocard (Old French cocart) "foolishly proud, cocky," as a noun, "idiot, fool;" an allusive extension from coq (see cock (n.1)).
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