cockade
/kɑˈkeɪd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.76 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An emblem of concentric circles of different colours, identifying the country to which an aircraft belongs.
Example Sentences
- "[…] 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."
- "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."
- "On the bank of the river in French territory lies a wrecked plane bearing the cockade of the French service."
Etymology
Partial calque of French cocarde.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /kɑˈkeɪd/
- British English: /kɒkˈeɪd/