cocarde

Unadapted borrowing from French cocarde.

cocarde (plural cocardes)

1. (aviation) Alternative form of cockade, an emblem on an airplane's wing indicating its nationality.

• Hyphenation: co‧car‧de

cocarde f (plural cocardes or cocarden, diminutive cocardetje n)

1. superseded spelling of kokarde

From coq (“cock, rooster”) +‎ -ard, reference to the animal's plumage.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.kaʁd/

• Audio:

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cocarde f (plural cocardes)

1. rosette
2. cockade (rosette or knot of ribbon worn in a hat)

   cocarde tricolore ― cockade of France

   • 1972, Georges Brassens, “La Ballade des gens qui sont nés quelque part”, in Fernande:

     Le reste avec mépris du haut de leurs remparts / La race des chauvins, des porteurs de cocardes

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• cocardier

• → Dutch: kokarde, cocarde (superseded)
  • → Indonesian: kokarde
  • → Sundanese: kokardeu
• → English: cockade, cocarde
• → German: Kokarde
• → Greek: κονκάρδα (konkárda)
• → Portuguese: cocar
• → Russian: кока́рда (kokárda)

• “cocarde”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.