As nouns the difference between cockade and dogvane
is that cockade is a rosette worn in a hat as an office or party badge while dogvane is (nautical) a small vane of bunting, feathers, or other light material, carried at the masthead to indicate the direction of the wind.
cockade
English
Noun
(
en noun)
A rosette worn in a hat as an office or party badge.
dogvane
English
Noun
(
en noun)
(nautical) A small vane of bunting, feathers, or other light material, carried at the masthead to indicate the direction of the wind.
- (Totten)
(obsolete, nautical) A cockade worn on a hat (worn in the British Navy in the 18th and 19th centuries)