Dictionary

cockade en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /kɒkˈeɪd/ (UK)
• /kɑˈkeɪd/ (Canada, US)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Partial calque of French cocarde.

Meanings

1. A rosette or knot of ribbon worn in a hat, especially as an office or party badge.
   • Through the park railings these glances beheld men and women riding in the Row, […] solitary horsemen looking unsociable, and solitary women followed at a long distance by a groom with a cockade to his hat and a leather belt over his tight-fitting coat. 1906 January–October, Joseph Conrad, chapter II, in The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale, London: Methuen & Co., […], published September 1907, →OCLC:
   • […] 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:

Forms

Deriveds

cockaded

Synonyms

roundel

Translations (36)

nn kokarde (a rosette worn in a hat as an office or party badge) · uk кока́рда (a rosette worn in a hat as an office or party badge) · nl kokarde (a rosette worn in a hat as an office or party badge) · cmn 帽徽 (a rosette worn in a hat as an office or party badge) · eo kokardo (a rosette worn in a hat as an office or party badge) · mk кока́рда (a rosette worn in a hat as an office or party badge) · bg кокарда (aviation: An emblem of concentric circles of different colours) · io kokardo (a rosette worn in a hat as an office or party badge) · es cucarda (a rosette worn in a hat as an office or party badge) · mr कॉकेड (a rosette worn in a hat as an office or party badge) · bg кока́рда (a rosette worn in a hat as an office or party badge) · su kokardeu (a rosette worn in a hat as an office or party badge) · nb kokarde (a rosette worn in a hat as an office or party badge) · fr cocarde (a rosette worn in a hat as an office or party badge) · tr kokart (a rosette worn in a hat as an office or party badge) · pt roseta (a rosette worn in a hat as an office or party badge) · tr amblem (aviation: An emblem of concentric circles of different colours) · sh ко̀ка̄рда (a rosette worn in a hat as an office or party badge) · fi kokardi (a rosette worn in a hat as an office or party badge) · cs kokarda (a rosette worn in a hat as an office or party badge) · sh kòkārda (a rosette worn in a hat as an office or party badge) · gl escarapela (a rosette worn in a hat as an office or party badge) · hu kokárda (a rosette worn in a hat as an office or party badge) · ca escarapel·la (a rosette worn in a hat as an office or party badge) · pl kokarda (a rosette worn in a hat as an office or party badge) · ru кока́рда (a rosette worn in a hat as an office or party badge) · it coccarda (a rosette worn in a hat as an office or party badge) · tr rozet (a rosette worn in a hat as an office or party badge) · da kokarde (a rosette worn in a hat as an office or party badge) · ja 円形章 (a rosette worn in a hat as an office or party badge) · sv kokard (a rosette worn in a hat as an office or party badge) · de Kokarde (a rosette worn in a hat as an office or party badge) · ga cnota (a rosette worn in a hat as an office or party badge) · ja 帽章 (a rosette worn in a hat as an office or party badge) · cmn 帽章 (a rosette worn in a hat as an office or party badge) · pt cocarda (a rosette worn in a hat as an office or party badge)