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Coq vs Cockerel - What's the difference?

coq | cockerel |

As a proper noun coq

is coquihalla.

As a noun cockerel is

a young male chicken.

coq

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A trimming of cock feathers on a woman's hat.
  • * 1897 , Ladies' home journal: Volume 15
  • with a flat Tarn crown of heliotrope velvet, a drapery under the brim, and two flat coq feathers.
  • * 1921 , Millinery trade review: Volume 46
  • A smart all-black model has just arrived from Jeanne Due. It is turban-trimmed with black coq which forms a bow drape.
  • * 2010 , Deborah Davis, Party of the Century
  • 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.
    English words containing Q not followed by U ----

    cockerel

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A young male chicken.
  • *
  • He had made arrangements with the cockerel to call him three-quarters of an hour earlier in the mornings instead of half an hour.

    See also

    * chicken * hen * rooster