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Date: 1600-1700
Language: French
Origin: cocarde, from cocard 'too proud of yourself', from coq 'male chicken', from Old French coc

cockade

 noun
     
Related topics: Clothes and Fashion
cock‧ade [countable]
DC a small piece of cloth used as a decoration on a hat to show rank, membership of a club etc
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