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cockscomb
Word definitions for cockscomb in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 The fleshy red crest of a rooster 2 A red cap once worn by court jesters 3 A yellow rattle, (taxlink Rhinanthus minor species noshow=1) (gloss: flowering plant native to Eurasia) 4 An annual garden plant, (taxlink Celosia cristata species noshow=1), ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. garden annual with featherlike spikes of red or yellow flowers [syn: common cockscomb , Celosia cristata , Celosia argentea cristata ] a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments [syn: coxcomb ] a cap worn by court jesters; adorned ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, "comb or crest of a cock," from possessive of cock (n.1) + comb (n.). Meaning "cap worn by a professional fool" is from 1560s; hence "conceited fool" (1560s), a sense passing into the derivative coxcomb . As a plant name, from 1570s.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Cockscomb is a high mountain in the Eastern Cape , in South Africa . It gets its name from its resemblance to a fowl's comb . It is situated in the Baviaanskloof region and the nearest town is Patensie . The Cockscomb is part of the Groot Winterhoek ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cockscomb \Cocks"comb`\ (k[o^]ks"k[=o]m`), n. [1st cock, n. + comb crest.] See Coxcomb . (Bot.) A plant ( Celosia cristata ), of many varieties, cultivated for its broad, fantastic spikes of brilliant flowers; -- sometimes called garden cockscomb . Also ...
Usage examples of cockscomb.
Just before the Sud Line crossed the Tar by Cockscomb Bridge, a collapsed building made a huge slope of half-crushed brick and concrete splinters that seemed to shore up the raised railway.
He pulled the blanket up over his shoulder and closed his eyes, thinking of the young man with the green cockscomb poring over the map.
He pulled the blanket up over his shoulder and closed his eyes, thinking of the young man with the green cockscomb poring over the map.
The Life Guards, scarlet coated and wearing black and gold Grecian cockscomb helmets, hammered at the enemy with their ungainly heavy swords.
Formerly, he'd sported a Mohawk, a great cockscomb of pink down the center of his head, with the sides shaved close.
The dinner, which consisted of a broiled fowl with mushrooms, preceded by a dressed lobster and a delicacy of cockscombs served in a wine sauce, and followed by a pupton of pears, in the old style, and a trifle, was excellently cooked, and earned the Viscount’s praise.
There are some cockscombs here and there in England, learning it abroad as men transregionate, which make account also of this pastime, as of a notable matter, telling what a sight is seen between them, if either of them be lusty and courageous in his kind.
Taltries being unnecessary within dominite walls, the lords burdened their heads instead with large beaver hats or generously draped millineries of velvet and cloth, or cockscombs of stiffened, scalloped fabrics.
The hills of the escarpment rose in a series of cockscombs, so two-dimensional that they seemed to be cut out from thin sheets of some opaque material that allowed the colours of the sunrise to glow through with a weird luminosity.
She looked like Jill the mental health worker, but couldn't be because Jill had blond hair in braids down her back, and this woman had blond hair cut to a fuzz but for a cockscomb on top, a punk cut.
Especially there was clover, waving patches of cockscomb clover, and purple clover, and wide stretches of short white sweet honey-smelling clover.
Open hydrants lowered the water pressure and women screamed out of top-story windows at the boys and girls standing in the wide cockscomb spray they'd created by putting a bottomless keg over the mouth of the hydrant.