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Definition: Cockade |
CockadeNoun1. An ornament (such as a knot of ribbon or a rosette) usually worn on the hat. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cockade" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
Etymology: Cockade \Cock*ade"\, noun. [French expression cocarble, from coquard vain, Old French coquart, from coq cock, probably of imitative origin. The ornament is so named from its resemblance to the crest of cock. Compare to Coquette.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | This dream denotes that foes will bring disastrous suits against you. Beware of titles. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Cockade The men-servants of the military wear a small black cockade on their hat, the Hanoverian badge. The Stuart cockade was white. At the battle of Sherra-Muir, in the reign of George I., the English soldiers wore a black rosette in their hats. In the song of Sherra-Muir the English soldiers are called "the red-coat lads wi' black cockades." (French, cocarde; German, kokarde.) In the British Army and Navy the cockade, since the Hanoverian accession, has been black. AUSTRIAN cockade is black and yellow. All sentry boxes and boundary posts are so painted. Ein schwarz-gelber was the nickname of an Austrian Imperialist in 1848. BAVARIA, light blue and white are the royal colours. BELGIUM, black, yellow, and red. FRANCE (regal), the royal colour was white. HANOVER, the cockade was black. Black enters into all the German cockades. PRUSSIA, black and white are the royal colours. RUSSIA, green and white are the royal colours. To mount the cockade. To become a soldier. From time immemorial the partisans of different leaders have adopted some emblem to show their party; in 1767 an authoritative regulation determined that every French soldier should wear a white cockade, and in 1782 the badge was restricted to the military. The phrase given above is common both to England and France. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Indication | Heraldry, crest; coat of arms, arms; armorial bearings, hatchment; escutcheon, scutcheon; shield, supporters; livery, uniform; epaulet, chevron; garland, love knot, favor. |
Title | Decoration, laurel, palm, wreath, garland, bays, medal, ribbon, riband, blue ribbon, cordon, cross, crown, coronet, star, garter; feather, feather in one,s cap; epaulet, epaulette, colors, livery; order, arms, shield, scutcheon; reward. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Cockade |
| English words defined with "cockade": Cockaded. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cockade": cockade structure, CURSE OF GOD ♦ DOG VANE, Dog-vane ♦ Procession of the Black Breeches ♦ White Cockade. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "cockade": Coquette. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | I took him as he was sleeping on the sofa, and it is as strong a likeness of his cockade as you would wish to see. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Europe put on the white cockade. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Cockade" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 61.54% of the time. "Cockade" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 61.54% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 38.46% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cockade cross | 4 |
cockade | 3 |
the white cockade | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cockade"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | عقدة شريط القبعة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | кокарда. (various references) | |
Czech | kokarda. (various references) | |
Finnish | kokardi. (various references) | |
French | cocarde. (various references) | |
German | Korkade. (various references) | |
Greek | κοκάρδα, κονκάρδα (badge, rosette), σήμα στον πίλο. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kokárda. (various references) | |
Italian | coccarda (rosette). (various references) | |
Manx | dossan (bunch, hackle, small cluster, spray, tuft). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ockadecay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cocar (panache). (various references) | |
Romanian | cocardã. (various references) | |
Russian | кокарда (ensign). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kokarda. (various references) | |
Spanish | escarapela (brawl, rosette). (various references) | |
Swedish | kokard (Favor, favour). (various references) | |
Turkish | kokart, şapkaya takılan rozet. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | кокарда. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | phù hiệu đeo ở mũ. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cockade": cockaded, cockades. (additional references) | |
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"Cockade" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cockace, Jochade, Kokciede, pochade. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-k-o" | |
-1 letter: cocked. | |
-2 letters: acock, caked, codec, coked. | |
-3 letters: aced, cade, cake, ceca, coca, coda, code, coed, coke, dace, deck, deco, dock, odea. | |
-4 letters: ace, ado, cad, cod, dak, doc, doe, kae, kea, koa, oak, oca, ode, oka, oke. | |
-5 letters: ad, ae, de, do, ed, ka, od, oe. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-d-e-k-o" | |
+1 letter: cockaded, cockades. | |
+2 letters: peacocked. | |
+3 letters: cocktailed. | |
+4 letters: backcrossed, crookbacked. | |
+5 letters: checkerboard, hydrocracked, hydrocracker. | |
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