coq

French

coq (plural coqs)

1. A trimming of cock feathers on a woman's hat.
   • 1897, Ladies' home journal: Volume 15

     […] with a flat Tam 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.

• IPA^(key): /kɔk/

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• Rhymes: -ɔk

From Old French coc.

coq m (plural coqs)

1. male chicken, rooster, cockerel, cock

• coq de bruyère
• coq au vin

• poule

Borrowed from Dutch kok, from Latin coquus. Doublet of queux

coq m (plural coqs)

1. (rare) a cook

   Synonym: cuisinier

• “coq” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Old French coc (“cock, rooster”)

coq m (plural coqs)

1. (Jersey) tap

• coq à ieau caûde (“hot water tap”)
• coq à ieau fraide (“cold water tap”)

Clipping of coquelicot

coq m (plural coqs)

1. (Guernsey) poppy

• coquelicot