What is "cockades"

Usage examples of "cockades".

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.

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.

Not that I paid all that much Attention, of course, tho' a good number of Citizens, themselves by way of Brims and Cockades displaying Headgear Messages a-plenty, were loitering about, trying to decipher this Stranger's Hat.