0 a decorative knot of cloth worn in the hat, often for official ceremonies, to show rank
A pretty laced or tasselled handkerchief was also a favor and was worn like a cockade.
He had shot the Colonel of the Swiss Guards through his cockade.
Men took off their caps, tore out the hated white cockades, trampled them under foot, and from pockets where they had concealed them for this very moment, they replaced them with the tricolor.
One of the three was a woman, a peasant woman wearing the tri-color cockade, who was needed in Paris to give evidence against an aristocrat.
The deputies, by reiterating the requirement to wear the cockade, changed its thrust from punishing bad citizens to forming good ones.
They became, in effect, public functionaries, with the cockade as a badge of office.
It removes the prohibition on bands, cockades and ribbons.
