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Then, in the nick of time, Washington, accompanied by a cockaded Alexander Hamilton and a bareheaded Marquis de Lafayette, gallops up to rally the troops and confound the crestfallen poltroon Lee,* slumping in his saddle.

From Time Magazine Archive

Black coachmen and white, in cockaded silk hats, with thorny whips at jaunty angles, fluttered the leathern ribbons that guided the cobs that drew glistening Brewster cut-unders to the theatre.

From Time Magazine Archive

The rich resurrected carriages and rode behind cockaded coachmen in barouches or victorias.

From Time Magazine Archive

Leading them was a general, wearing the long blue Continental coat and cockaded hat with feathers in it.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

He kept one white-gloved hand on the knob, standing, with his cockaded hat and his long-skirted coat, motionless and respectful in the outer gloom.

From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar