cockade

thumb|right|A woman fastening a Flag of Poland|red-and-white cockade to a Polish insurgent's square-shaped [[rogatywka cap during the January Uprising of 1863–64]]

A cockade is a knot of ribbons, or other circular- or oval-shaped symbol of distinctive colours which is usually worn on a hat or cap. The word cockade derives from the French cocarde, from Old French coquarde, feminine of coquard (vain, arrogant), from coc (cock), of imitative origin. The earliest documented use was in 1709.