cockade

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an ornament (such as a knot of ribbon or a rosette) usually worn on the hat

   The red, white and blue cockade was a familiar emblem of the French Revolution.

2. 2
   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; […]

3. 3
   noun

   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.

Partial calque of French cocarde.

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