Crossword clues for cockade
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cockade \Cock*ade"\, n. [F. cocarble, fr. coquard vain, OF. coquart, fr. coq cock, prob. of imitative origin. The ornament is so named from its resemblance to the crest of a cock. Cf. Coquette.] A badge, usually in the form of a rosette, or knot, and generally worn upon the hat; -- used as an indication of military or naval service, or party allegiance, and in England as a part of the livery to indicate that the wearer is the servant of a military or naval officer.
Seduced by military liveries and cockades.
--Burke.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1709, earlier cockard (1650s), from French cocarde (16c.), fem. of cocard (Old French cocart) "foolishly proud, cocky," as a noun, "idiot, fool;" an allusive extension from coq (see cock (n.1)).
Wiktionary
n. A rosette worn in a hat as an office or party badge.
WordNet
n. an ornament (such as a knot of ribbon or a rosette) usually worn on the hat
Wikipedia
A cockade is a knot of ribbons, or other circular- or oval-shaped symbol of distinctive colors which is usually worn on a hat.
Usage examples of "cockade".
Eliste glimpsed silk flowers, rosettes and cockades, laces, scallop-edged ribbons, jewelled buckles and buttons, fringes and silken tassels, feathers and curly plumes in every colour.
I must not forget to state that at Revero I had decorated my hat with a red cockade.
On the following day I called at the war office, but, to avoid every chance of unpleasantness, I took care to remove my cockade.
Have bent them busy in their private rooms With working white cockades these several days.
At first the cockades were kept hidden, but as each day passed more were worn in open defiance of the Bonapartist troops that remained.
About his neck was a white cravat, while on his cocked hat were four cockades, one each for England, Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands.
Nina remained as impudent as ever, doubled the size of the red cockades which she made her servants wear, and swore that Spain would avenge her on the insolent archbishop.
His lambskin papakha showed an imprint where an oval tzarist cockade used to be.
I procured a long sword, and with my fine cane in hand, with a well-brushed hat ornamented with a black cockade, and wearing a long false pigtail, I sallied forth and walked all over the city.
A few men still proclaimed their loyalty to Napoleon, but most longed for the peace that would revive trade and, as a symbol of that longing, they made themselves white cockades that were the badge of France's royal house.
Half the town guard wears the white cockade now, and so would the other half if they had the guts.
All the prominent citizens of Toulouse were attending, and all wore the white cockade of the French monarchy and were swearing that they had never supported the upstart Corsican tyrant.
The scarlet, gold and black cockade of the Netherlands was gaudy on the hat.
The man's shako had a red, white and blue cockade, and some of the shako's overlapping brass plates were missing from its leather chin-strap.
Instead Sharpe snatched the tricorne hat off his head and ripped the black, gold and scarlet cockade of the Netherlands from its crown.