cockscomb
IPA: kˈɑkskʌm
noun
- The fleshy red crest of a rooster
- A red cap once worn by court jesters
- A yellow rattle, Rhinanthus minor (flowering plant native to Eurasia)
- An annual garden plant (Celosia argentea var. cristata, syn. Celosia cristata), having showy red clusters of flowers
- (archaic) A conceited dandy
- (nautical) A serrated cleat once fitted to the yards of a square-rigged ship and used when the sail was being reefed
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Examples of "cockscomb" in Sentences
- The crushed velvet of cockscomb provided the peacock's comb.
- Gonzalo, who has fiery eyes and a cockscomb of hair the color of black shoe polish, is 44.
- (spine-tufts); and P.a. cristata is, as its name denotes a kind of cockscomb or crested form.
- She bought bright zinnias and magenta cockscomb and put bouquets in the kitchen, living room and bedroom.
- The cockscomb is the most widely known, but many white or double flowered varieties were already cultivated at that time.
- Certain varieties are sometimes distinguished (esp. by modern historians) according to shape, as comb (also cockscomb) morion, Spanish (also pear-shaped) morion, etc.
- Her longings grew more varied and virulent with each passing year: raw pig meat, Hawaiian pineapples infeasible to procure in revolutionary Cuba, chewing tobacco, cockscomb stew.
- The English army then, to distinguish themselves, assumed a black rosette on their hats; which, from its position, the Scotch nick-named a "cock'ade" (with which our use of the word "cockscomb" is connected) and is still retained.
- Brahmans, who shave their heads, leaving only one long central lock, and wear turbans of blinding red, decorated in front with a sort of golden horn of plenty; Bangas, wearing three-cornered helmets with a kind of cockscomb on the top; Kachhis, with Roman helmets; Bhillis, from the borders of Rajastan, whose chins are wrapped three times in the ends of their pyramidal turbans, so that the innocent tourist never fails to think that they constantly suffer from toothache; Bengalis and Calcutta
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