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COCKADE (Fr. cocarde, in 16th See also:century coquarde, from coq, in allusion probably to the See also:cock's See also:comb)  , a See also:knot of See also:ribbons or a rosette worn as a badge, particularly now as See also:part of the See also:livery of servants . The See also:cockade was at first the See also:button and See also:loop or clasp which " cocked " up the See also:side of an See also:ordinary slouch See also:hat . The word first appears in this sense in See also:Rabelais in the phrase " See also:bonnet d la coquarde," which is explained by See also:Cotgrave (1611) as a " See also:Spanish cap or See also:fashion of bonnet used by substantial men of yore . . . worne proudly or peartly on th' one side." The bunch of ribbons as a party badge See also:developed from this entirely utilitarian button and loop . The Stuarts' badge was a See also:white See also:rose, and the resulting white cockade figured in Jacobite songs after the downfall of the See also:dynasty . See also:William III.'s cockade was of yellow, and the See also:House of See also:Hanover introduced theirs of See also:black, which in its See also:present spiked or circular See also:form of See also:leather is worn in See also:England to-See also:day by the royal coachmen and grooms, and the servants of all officials or members of the services . At the See also:battle of See also:Sheriffmuir in the reign of See also:George I. the See also:English soldiers wore a black rosette in their hats, and in a contemporary See also:song are called " the red-coat lads wi' black cockades." At the outbreak of the See also:French Revolution of 1789, cockades of See also:green ribbon were adopted . These afterwards gave See also:place to the tricolour cockade, which is said to have been a mixture of the traditional See also:colours of See also:Paris (red and See also:blue) with the white of the Bourbons, the See also:early Revolutionists being still Royalists . The French See also:army wore the tricolour cockade until the Restoration . To-day each See also:foreign nation has its See also:special coloured cockade . Thus the See also:Austrian is black and yellow, the Bavarian See also:light blue and white, the Belgian black, yellow and red, French the tricolour, Prussian black and white, See also:Russian green and white, and so on, following usually the See also:national colours . Originally the wearing of a cockade, as soon as it had developed into a badge, was restricted to soldiers, as " to See also:mount a cockade " was " to become a soldier." There is still a trace of the cockade as a badge in certain military headgears in England and elsewhere .

Otherwise it has become entirely the See also:

mark of domestic service . The military cocked hat, the lineal descendant of the bonnet a la coquarde, became the fashion in See also:France during the reign of See also:Louis XV . See Genealogical See also:Magazine, vols. i.-iii . (See also:London, 1897–1899) Racinet, La See also:Costume historique (6 vols., Paris, 1888) .

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