cockades

• “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.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Between Heaven and Earth

• “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

• “Until they are interrupted by a roaring pack of bloodthirsty dinosaurs with chicken cockades on their heads and lethal blades on their tails.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Slashers, Clippers and a Ghost

• “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.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Mistaken Wife

• “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

• “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

• “Crummleses, who wore white cockades, and were decorated with the choicest and most resplendent waistcoats in the theatrical wardrobe.”

  Nicholas Nickleby

• “This, however, was natural enough, considering their inferiority in point of numbers; for the proportion of those who wore blue cockades, to those who were dressed as usual, was at least forty or fifty to one.”

  Barnaby Rudge

• “There was no quarrelling, however: the blue cockades went swarming on, passing each other when they could, and making all the speed that was possible in such a multitude; and exchanged nothing more than looks, and very often not even those, with such of the passers – by as were not of their number.”

  Barnaby Rudge

• “Here an immense multitude was collected, bearing flags of various kinds and sizes, but all of the same colour — blue, like the cockades — some sections marching to and fro in military array, and others drawn up in circles, squares, and lines.”

  Barnaby Rudge

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