OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 29535

cockade

/kɒkˈeɪd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
escarapela
A rosette or knot of ribbon worn in a hat, especially as an office or party badge.
The escort were two mounted patriots in red caps and tri-coloured cockades, armed with national muskets and sabres, who rode one on either side of him.
[…] 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 h…
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