COCKADE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cockade mean? 

• COCKADE (noun)
  The noun COCKADE has 1 sense:

1. an ornament (such as a knot of ribbon or a rosette) usually worn on the hat

  Familiarity information: COCKADE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COCKADE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An ornament (such as a knot of ribbon or a rosette) usually worn on the hat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("cockade" is a kind of...):

decoration; ornament; ornamentation (something used to beautify)

 Context examples 

“I had only my own family to study from. There is my father—another of my father—but the idea of sitting for his picture made him so nervous, that I could only take him by stealth; neither of them very like therefore. Mrs. Weston again, and again, and again, you see. Dear Mrs. Weston! always my kindest friend on every occasion. She would sit whenever I asked her. There is my sister; and really quite her own little elegant figure!—and the face not unlike. I should have made a good likeness of her, if she would have sat longer, but she was in such a hurry to have me draw her four children that she would not be quiet. Then, here come all my attempts at three of those four children;—there they are, Henry and John and Bella, from one end of the sheet to the other, and any one of them might do for any one of the rest. She was so eager to have them drawn that I could not refuse; but there is no making children of three or four years old stand still you know; nor can it be very easy to take any likeness of them, beyond the air and complexion, unless they are coarser featured than any of mama's children ever were. Here is my sketch of the fourth, who was a baby. 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. He had nestled down his head most conveniently. That's very like. I am rather proud of little George. The corner of the sofa is very good. Then here is my last,”—unclosing a pretty sketch of a gentleman in small size, whole-length—“my last and my best—my brother, Mr. John Knightley.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)