cockade UK /kɒkˈeɪd/US /kɑˈkeɪd/ noun2 •A rosette or knot of ribbon worn in a hat, especially as an office or party badge.[…] and Nature had moreover wrote GENTLEMAN with so fair a hand in every line of his countenance, that even his tarnish’d gold-laced hat and huge cockade of flimsy taffeta became him; […] — 1761 •An emblem of concentric circles of different colours, identifying the country to which an aircraft belongs.On the bank of the river in French territory lies a wrecked plane bearing the cockade of the French service. — 1920 formscockades