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/kɒkˈeɪd/ · noun
A rosette or knot of ribbon worn in a hat, especially as an office or party badge..
[…] 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; […]
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.
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.
On the bank of the river in French territory lies a wrecked plane bearing the cockade of the French service.
Use cockade when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cockade means A rosette or knot of ribbon worn in a hat, especially as an office or party badge..
Common synonyms include roundel.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…] 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; […]
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