Cockade Definition

kŏ-kād
noun
A rosette, knot of ribbon, etc. worn on the hat as a badge.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Cockade

Noun

Singular:
cockade
Plural:
cockades

Origin of Cockade

  • Alteration of obsolete cockard from French cocarde from Old French coquarde feminine of coquard vain, cocky from coc cock from Late Latin coccus cock1

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French cocarde.

    From Wiktionary

Cockade Sentence Examples

  • The Second Class fired at 150 yards with three shots off-hand and three from a rest for an all green cockade.

  • James army wore the white cockade in honor of their French support and his leader was Sarsfield - James did not fight himself.

  • At Innsbruck the Bavarians had already donned the red cockade, and on the Brenner rebellion had broken out.

  • He is the chief tragic poet of the revolutionary period, and as Camille Desmoulins expressed it, he decorated Melpomene with the tricolour cockade.

  • The kiag was obliged to recall Necker, to mount the tricolor cockade at the Hotel de Yule, and to recognize Bailly as mayor of Paris and La Fayette as commander of the National Guard, which remained in.

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Words Starting With

CCOCOC

Words Ending With

EDEADE

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Words Starting With C and Ending With E

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