Thesaurus results for COCKADE

cockade

noun

as in silver

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Recent Examples of cockade French revolutionaries pinned cockades to their clothes; suffragettes slung purple-and-green sashlike ribbons across their chests. —

Alice Robb, Vogue, 29 Nov. 2023 As a general and eventual emperor, Napoleon wore the cockade to symbolize his own revolutionary leadership. —

Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 19 Nov. 2023 Lafayette, on his return to France in 1779, was a hero with all the glamour of revolution clinging to his cockade, as charismatic as Che Guevara in the sixties, but with a better character. —

Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021 In revolutionary France, the Marquis de Lafayette, the same French aristocrat who fought in the American revolutionary war, is said to have designed the red, blue and white cockade. —

The Economist, 17 June 2020 Nearly 500 costume makers and enthusiasts from around the world converged on the DoubleTree Hotel at Hazard Center this weekend for panels on makeup transformations, fun with fosshape, beginner embroidery and ribbon cockades. —

David Garrick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 May 2018

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Noun

His father ran a successful silver and jewelry business, and later served as a director of an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut.

— Sebastian Smee, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
On the other hand, private mints produce silver bars that have a higher silver content per ounce.

— Amy DeYoung, USA Today, 4 May 2026