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cockades

cockades is the plural 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

Questions about cockades

What is cockades the plural of?
Cockades is the plural of cockade.

Words near cockades in the dictionary

  1. cockabullies
  2. cockabully
  3. cockache
  4. cockade
  5. cockaded
  6. cockades
  7. cockadoodle
  8. cockadoodle broth
  9. cockadoodled
  10. cockadoodledo
  11. cockadoodledoo

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