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cocarde

cocarde is the alternative form of cockade.

Meaning of cockade

Noun

cockade (plural cockades)

  1. A rosette or knot of ribbon worn in a hat, especially as an office or party badge.
    • […] 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 him; […]1761, [Laurence Sterne], chapter LXI, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume IV, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], →OCLC
  2. An emblem of concentric circles of different colours, identifying the country to which an aircraft belongs.
    • On the bank of the river in French territory lies a wrecked plane bearing the cockade of the French service.1920, “Nerve-Strain”, in James Norman Hall, Charles Nordhoff, editors, The Lafayette Flying Corps, volume 2, Houghton Mifflin Company, page 103
    Synonyms:
    roundel

Forms of cocarde

pluralcocardes

Origin of cocarde

Unadapted borrowing from French cocarde.

Questions about cocarde

What is cocarde the alternative form of?
Cocarde is the alternative form of cockade.

Words near cocarde in the dictionary

  1. cocarcinogen
  2. cocarcinogenesis
  3. cocarcinogenic
  4. cocarcinogenicity
  5. cocarcinogens
  6. cocarde
  7. cocardes
  8. cocas
  9. cocash
  10. cocashweed
  11. cocashweeds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cocarde (page history and authors); cockade (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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