Cockade

A cockade is a knot of ribbons, or other symbol of distinctive colours which is usually worn on a hat.

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In the eighteenth century, it was pinned on the side of a man's tricorn or cocked hat, or on their lapel. Women could also wear it on their hat or in their hair. A cockade uses distinctive colors to show the allegiance of its wearer to some political faction, their rank, or as part of a servant's livery. In pre-revolutionary France, the cockade of the Bourbon dynasty was all white. The Hanoverian monarchy of Great Britain had one that was all black. But elsewhere and at other times there was more variety.

Eighteenth century: redirect 18th century...

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