Cockade

Quick meaning: Cockade is a noun meaning A rosette or knot of ribbon worn in a hat, especially as an office or party badge.

Meaning

A rosette or knot of ribbon worn in a hat, especially as an office or party badge.

More Meanings

1. (aviation) An emblem of concentric circles of different colours, identifying the country to which an aircraft belongs.

Example Sentences

On the bank of the river in French territory lies a wrecked plane bearing the cockade of the French service.

The escort were two mounted patriots in red caps and tri-coloured cockades, armed with national muskets and sabres, who rode one on either side of him.

[…] and Nature had moreover wrote GENTLEMAN with so fair a hand in every line of his countenance, that even his tarnish’d gold-laced hat and huge cockade of flimsy taffeta became him; […]

Through the park railings these glances beheld men and women riding in the Row, […] solitary horsemen looking unsociable, and solitary women followed at a long distance by a groom with a cockade to his hat and a leather belt over his tight-fitting coat.

Word Forms

• cockades
• cocarde

Synonyms for cockade

Depending on context, synonyms include roundel.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tricoloured, tricolored, torsade, chou, favor, capbadge.

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