Obs. Also cokard. [a. F. coquard, -art old cock, fool, f. coq cock: see -ARD. Cotgr. has ‘cocard, a nice doult, quaint goose, fond, or saucie cokes.’] An old fool, simpleton.
1393. Gower, Conf., II. 221. Wher was it euer er this befalle, That any cokard in this wise Betoke his wife for covetise?
a. 1400–50. Alexander, 4472. Þus ȝe comende þaim on knees as cocards suld.
c. 1430. Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, II. xxiii. (1869), 84. If j leyde it doun a gret foole j were, and a gret cokard [coruart].
Hence † Cocardy [Fr. coquardie (in Godefroy)], folly.
c. 1430. Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, II. lxiv. (1869), 100. I see in thee but folye and cokardye [musardye].
