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Recent Examples of cockadeFrench 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 Later, the tricolour seeped out from the cockade into the broader political sphere and is now immortalised in the French flag, a symbol of national identity and unity.—The Economist, 17 June 2020 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
The triptych is set in a silver and gilt mount, enhanced with colored enamel, precious stones, emeralds, rubies, sapphires and pearls, the Byzantium department said in its statement.
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Anthony DeMarco,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
Its sunglasses, made from such materials as organic acetate, titanium, sterling silver and even 18k solid gold, can require 250 individual steps and as many as two years to make.
During the Shang and Western Zhou dynasties, bronze vessels were primarily used for sacrifices to ancestors.
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Jane Levere,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
The competition’s silver medal went to 30-year-old Israeli-Russian Vitaly Starikov, and the bronze was awarded to an American, 26-year-old Minneapolis native Evren Ozel.
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Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
8 June 2025
There is not normally an upside to losing a star player through injury for a lengthy period, but Kaoru Mitoma’s absence from the last 16 games of the 2023-24 season had a silver lining for Brighton & Hove Albion.
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Andy Naylor,
New York Times,
6 June 2025
Meanwhile, Elizabeth took off, Joel started drinking and this marked the beginning of a spiral for the star.
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