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† cocard Obs.
Also cokard.
[a. F. coquard, -art old cock, fool, f. coq cock: see -ard. Cotgr. has ‘cocard, a nice doult, quaint goose, fond, or saucie cokes’.]
An old fool, simpleton.
1393Gower Conf. II. 221 Wher was it euer er this befalle, That any cokard in this wise Betoke his wife for covetise? a1400–50Alexander 4472 Þus ȝe comende þaim on knees as cocards suld. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode ii. xxiii. (1869) 84 If j leyde it doun a gret foole j were, and a gret cokard [coruart].
Hence † cocardy [Fr. coquardie (in Godefroy)], folly.
c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode ii. lxiv. (1869) 100, I see in thee but folye and cokardye [musardye]. |