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
   • 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.1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →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