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Cockscomb

noun
1.
Garden annual with featherlike spikes of red or yellow flowers.  Synonyms: Celosia argentea cristata, Celosia cristata, common cockscomb.
2.
A conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments.  Synonym: coxcomb.
3.
A cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red.  Synonym: coxcomb.
4.
The fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds.  Synonyms: comb, coxcomb.



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"Cockscomb" Quotes from Famous Books



... Gentlemen took off their coats and took up their battledores. Their gibes and quirks are all printed in my edition, and are better reading than the book itself. Coryat was a cockscomb and scorned a straight sentence. A rule of his was: "Never use one adjective if three will do." So far as I know he was the first Englishman who travelled for the fun or the glory of the thing, unless Fynes Moryson anticipated him ...
— In a Green Shade - A Country Commentary • Maurice Hewlett


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