Cockscomb

Definitions

1. A fleshy red crest of a rooster
2. A red cap once worn by court jesters
3. A yellow rattle, Rhinanthus minor (flowering plant native to Eurasia)
4. An annual garden plant (Celosia argentea var. cristata, syn. Celosia cristata), having showy red clusters of flowers
5. A conceited dandy
   archaic
6. 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

“She saw⟳ a square picture framed in the window, two whitewashed cottages each with a little winding path, a bed of red and yellow cockscomb, a sloping field, a row of gum-trees, a child in a blue sunbonnet carrying a basket.”

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