cockade

[ko-keyd]

noun

a rosette, knot of ribbon, etc., usually worn on the hat as part of a uniform, as a badge of office, or the like.

Origin of cockade

1650–60; alteration of cocarde < French, equivalent to coc cock² + -arde -ard

Related formscock·ad·ed, adjective

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Examples from the Web for cockade

Historical Examples of cockade

A grass-green frock-coat, too, bound with gold; and a cockade in your hat!'
Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit
Charles Dickens
Also it had given them a cockade, of red and blue, the colours of Paris.
Scaramouche
Rafael Sabatini
And then he looked at the sash and the cockade, and hesitated, apparently at a loss.
Scaramouche
Rafael Sabatini
He had shot the Colonel of the Swiss Guards through his cockade.
Burlesques
William Makepeace Thackeray
And am I really to become a midshipman, and wear a cockade in my hat, and a dirk by my side?
Paddy Finn
W. H. G. Kingston

British Dictionary definitions for cockade

cockade

noun

a feather or ribbon worn on military headwear

Derived Formscockaded, adjective

Word Origin for cockade

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

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)).