cockade

[ ko-keyd ]

/ kɒˈkeɪd /

a rosette, knot of ribbon, etc., usually worn on the hat as part of a uniform, as a badge of office, or the like.

Origin of cockade

1650–60; alteration of cocarde < French, equivalent to coc cock² + -arde -ard

cock·ad·ed, adjective

Close examination of this cockade shows it to be complete, with no traces of a center eagle ever having been added.

American Military Insignia 1800-1851 |J. Duncan Campbell and Edgar M. Howell.
We are drawing near the chateau, and you might as well wear a cockade tricolor as let them hear that.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 |Various
In b the figure behind Mr. Pickwick is turned into Sam by placing a cockade on his hat.

Pickwickian Manners and Customs |Percy Fitzgerald
By 1802 these cockade eagles had taken the colors used for the buttons and lace of the different arms.

American Military Insignia 1800-1851 |J. Duncan Campbell and Edgar M. Howell.

The cockade on the hat is the privilege abroad of ambassadors; it is bad form.

The Complete Bachelor |Walter Germain

cockade

/ (kɒˈkeɪd) /

a feather or ribbon worn on military headwear

cockaded, adjective

C18: changed from earlier cockard, from French cocarde, feminine of cocard arrogant, strutting, from coq cock 1