Coq vs Cockerel - What's the difference?
coq | cockerel |
A trimming of cock feathers on a woman's hat.
* 1897 , Ladies' home journal: Volume 15
* 1921 , Millinery trade review: Volume 46
* 2010 , Deborah Davis, Party of the Century
As a proper noun coq
is coquihalla.As a noun cockerel is
a young male chicken.coq
English
Noun
(en noun)- with a flat Tarn crown of heliotrope velvet, a drapery under the brim, and two flat coq feathers.
- A smart all-black model has just arrived from Jeanne Due. It is turban-trimmed with black coq which forms a bow drape.
- It was the Spanish rooster, the bird that produced coq' feathers, that sacrificed the most plumage. ' Coqs , the rooster's long, curved, and iridescent tail feathers, were plucked from the bird to trim hats or, in this case, masks.