cockaded
9.9
Having a ribbon or cloth ornament on a hat
- adjective
- /kɒkˈeɪdɪd/
- Archaic
:
decorado con una roseta
- She found a beautiful antique cockaded hat at the flea market, adorned with colorful ribbons.
- cockaded hat
- Red-cockaded
- cockaded woodpecker
Examples
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One day, M'sieu was riding his mare past the gang, his cockaded hat abob on Yolande's trot as he passed on his way to more tangled parts of our isle to sketch.
Fiction book (1996) -
The soldier proudly wore his cockaded hat during the parade.
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At the costume party, many guests arrived wearing cockaded hats from different historical periods.
How Decorated
Surface Forms
cockaded positive
Morphology
Etymology
Cockaded comes from cockade, a small ribbon or round badge worn on a hat and taken from French and Italian words for a little 'rosette'. Think of a hat with a tiny 'flower' or ribbon on it, so cockaded means 'decorated with' or 'wearing' that ribbon or badge.