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  2. Tricorne - Wikipedia

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    Tricorne. The tricorne or tricorn is a style of hat that was popular during the 18th century, falling out of style by the early 1800s, though not called a "tricorne" until the mid-19th century. During the 18th century, hats of this general style were referred to as "cocked hats". At the peak of its popularity, the tricorne varied greatly in ...

  3. Civil Guard (Spain) - Wikipedia

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    Spanish Guardia Civil wearing the tricornio hat during National Day celebrations in Madrid. A wide range of clothing is currently worn according to the nature of the duties being performed (see schematic diagrams below). The traditional headdress of the Guardia is the tricornio hat, originally a tricorne. Its use now is reserved for ceremonial ...

  4. Bicorne - Wikipedia

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    Bicorne. Early bicorne from France, c. 1790. The bicorne or bicorn (two-cornered) is a historical form of hat widely adopted in the 1790s as an item of uniform by European and American army and naval officers. Most generals and staff officers of the Napoleonic period wore bicornes, which survived as widely-worn full-dress headdress until the ...

  5. Phrygian cap - Wikipedia

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    The Phrygian cap (/ ˈfrɪdʒ (iː) ən / ⓘ FRIJ- (ee)-ən) also known as Thracian cap[1][2][3] and Liberty cap is a soft conical cap with the apex bent over, associated in antiquity with several peoples in Eastern Europe, Anatolia and Asia. The Phrygian cap was worn by Thracians, Dacians, Persians, Medes, Scythians, Trojans, Amazons and ...

  6. Flag of Sicily - Wikipedia

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    The flag is characterized by the presence of the triskeles in its middle formed by the winged head of a woman (Hybla [], goddess of fertility among the ancient Sicilian people), head topped with a knot of snakes and three wheat ears, from which three bent legs radiate, as if seized in mid-race, representing the extreme fertility of the land of Sicily.

  7. Shako - Wikipedia

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    Shako. A shako (/ ˈʃækoʊ /, / ˈʃeɪkoʊ /, or / ˈʃɑːkoʊ /) is a tall, cylindrical military cap, usually with a visor, and sometimes tapered at the top. It is usually adorned with an ornamental plate or badge on the front, metallic or otherwise; and often has a feather, hackle, or pompom attached at the top.

  8. Cockade - Wikipedia

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    Cockade. A woman fastening a red-and-white cockade to a Polish insurgent's square-shaped rogatywka cap during the January Uprising of 1863–64. Charles Edward Stuart wearing a hat with a white (Jacobite) cockade. John of Austria wearing as a brassard the red cockade of the Spanish armies. A cockade is a knot of ribbons, or other circular- or ...

  9. Cockade of France - Wikipedia

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    Cockade of France. Cockade of France. The cockade of France (French: Cocarde tricolore, lit. 'Tricolor cockade') is the national ornament of France, obtained by circularly pleating a blue, white and red ribbon. It is composed of the three colors of the French flag, with blue in the center, white immediately outside and red on the edge.