Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In entomology, one of the bright-red, extensile, lobed vesicles found in coleopterous insects of the genus Malachius and its allies.
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By July 1792 a law was passed making it mandatory for all men to wear the tricolore cocarde.
The Politics of Fashion in Revolutionary France de Brantigny........................ 2007
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By July 1792 a law was passed making it mandatory for all men to wear the tricolore cocarde.
Archive 2007-11-04 de Brantigny........................ 2007
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My love for concentric circles of red, white, and blue dates from the moment when I saw the French _cocarde_ on his Spad.
High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France James Norman Hall 1919
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He there found an ex-Austrian officer, the lucky victor and slayer of his son, wearing in his buttonhole the Jugoslav _cocarde_, who, advancing toward him with extended hand, uttered the greeting, "You and I are now allies." [
The Inside Story of the Peace Conference Emile Joseph Dillon 1894
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