Cockade
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A cockade is a knot of ribbons, or other circular- or oval-shaped symbol of distinctive colours which is usually worn on a hat or cap. The word cockade derives from the French cocarde, from Old French
A woman fastening a red-and-white cockade to a Polish insurgent's square-shaped rogatywka cap during the January Uprising of 1863–64
A metal cockade on the swivel of a Pickelhaube helmet.
Carabinieri in full uniform at the military parade of the Festa della Repubblica of 2 June 2006. On their hat, under the coat of arms, is the cockade of Italy.
Cockades of the German Empire
Cockade of France
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The cockade of France is the national ornament of France, obtained by circularly pleating a blue, white and red ribbon. It is composed of the three colors of the French flag, with blue in the center,
Cockade
…cockades with the traditional colours of the arms of Paris: red and blue. Later, the Bourbon white was added to this cockade, thus producing the original cockade of France. Later, distinctive colours and styles of cockade would indicate the wearer's faction; although the meanings of the various styles were not entirely…
Camille Desmoulins, who devised the first French cockade
Officer of the gendarmerie nationale of the revolutionary era wearing a hat with a tricolor cockade
Detail of a presidential Citroën SM
A Dassault Rafale with a French tricolor cockade