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- noun Plural form of
cockade .
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Examples
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It's as if Spain is the life of the party, a land of ribbons and bows, cockades and tassels, fringe and lace, not to mention pompoms.
Between Heaven and Earth Laura Jacobs 2012
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Until they are interrupted by a roaring pack of bloodthirsty dinosaurs with chicken cockades on their heads and lethal blades on their tails.
Slashers, Clippers and a Ghost Nancy deWolf Smith 2011
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As the helmet plates, cockades, and collar numbers used to be in until the 70s.
“Ruralshire Constabulary to get TASER on the front line” « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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The pier was crowded with people: curious onlookers, servants crying up the merits of rival inns, ragged porters who tried to seize the luggage as it was unloaded, and women hawking buns and national cockades.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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The pier was crowded with people: curious onlookers, servants crying up the merits of rival inns, ragged porters who tried to seize the luggage as it was unloaded, and women hawking buns and national cockades.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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The pier was crowded with people: curious onlookers, servants crying up the merits of rival inns, ragged porters who tried to seize the luggage as it was unloaded, and women hawking buns and national cockades.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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Poiret also introduced a signature perfume, Rosine (named after another daughter), packaged with his usual extravagance; subsequent scents were presented in bottles made of Murano blown glass or topped with tricolored cockades or ivory stoppers.
The King Is Dead 2007
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Poiret also introduced a signature perfume, Rosine (named after another daughter), packaged with his usual extravagance; subsequent scents were presented in bottles made of Murano blown glass or topped with tricolored cockades or ivory stoppers.
The King Is Dead 2007
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To add insult to injury, she adamantly refused to wear the tricolor ribbons and cockades that revolutionary public adopted as privileged emblems of liberty, fraternity, and equality.
Caroline Weber: Let Them Eat Lace: Marie Antoinette's Fierce and Fearless Fashion 2008
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Crummleses, who wore white cockades, and were decorated with the choicest and most resplendent waistcoats in the theatrical wardrobe.
Nicholas Nickleby 2007
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