Cockade

//kɑˈkeɪd// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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; […]"

  2. 2
    an ornament (such as a knot of ribbon or a rosette) usually worn on the hat wordnet
  3. 3
    An emblem of concentric circles of different colours, identifying the country to which an aircraft belongs.

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

Etymology

Partial calque of French cocarde.

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