cockade
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3ADJ.
flimsy, huge
COCKADE + NOUN
taffeta
PREP.
with
Definitions
noun
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; […]
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.
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.
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3[…] 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; […]
WiktionaryThe 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.
WiktionaryThrough 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 hi
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