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Cockade
//kɑˈkeɪd// noun
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Noun
- 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 an ornament (such as a knot of ribbon or a rosette) usually worn on the hat wordnet
- 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.
See also for "cockade"
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