(n.) A cord or ribbon bestowed or borne as a badge of honor; a broad ribbon, usually worn after the manner of a baldric, constituting a mark of a very high grade in an honorary order. Cf. Grand cordon.
(n.) The cord worn by a Franciscan friar.
(n.) The coping of the scarp wall, which projects beyong the face of the wall a few inches.
(n.) A line or series of sentinels, or of military posts, inclosing or guarding any place or thing.
(n.) A rich and ornamental lace or string, used to secure a mantle in some costumes of state.
Example Sentences:
(1) As May delivered her statement in the chamber, police helicopters hovered overhead and a police cordon remained in place around Westminster, but MPs from across the political spectrum were determined to show that they were continuing with business as usual.
(2) In north-west Copenhagen, among the quiet, graffiti-tagged streets of red-brick blocks and low-rise social housing bordering the multi-ethnic Nørrebro district, police continued to cordon off roads and search a flat near the spot where officers killed a man believed to be behind Denmark’s bloodiest attacks in over a decade.
(3) A spokesperson for Staffordshire police said: “A detailed investigation is under way and the scene will remain cordoned off while the investigation continues.
(4) Police cordoned off the street and were allowing people to protest in groups of 50 for about five to 10 minutes before escorting them away.
(5) He had a private table on Dakota’s second floor that would often be cordoned off by a curtain upon his party’s arrival.
(6) Security experts have warned for years that they could be a target for terrorists because they are rarely cordoned off and have few or no bag checks.
(7) Members of the elite police squad wearing helmets came running out of the building and a police union representative at the cordon around the area shouted: "He's dead, he's dead."
(8) Photographs of the site in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero were released on Tuesday after a small group of journalists were taken behind a heavily policed cordon.
(9) The recent arrest of the brother, Liu Hui, may be particular retaliation for two incidents that broke the security cordon around Liu Xia and her isolation in her fifth-floor apartment in central Beijing.
(10) Just beyond the cordon, everyday life in one of the capital’s busiest areas for tourism and other commerce continued as best it could, with the addition of TV news crews gathered as close as possible to the scene, mainly by Lambeth Bridge, to the west of parliament, and just over the river on the South Bank.
(11) It’s a real shame.” 8.05am Facebook Twitter Pinterest A 500-metre cordon was set up around the rue du Corbillon.
(12) Then he fenced tamely outside his off stump at Plunkett, Jonny Bairstow pouched the ball and appealed with the slip cordon and Nigel Llong raised his finger.
(13) "Syrian security services quickly cordoned and searched the entire beach neighbourhood where the shooting had occurred," the embassy was informed.
(14) There are no police to unspool tape and cordon-off sensitive areas.
(15) But police allowed one family with three small children to pass through the cordon and go home.
(16) The force said officers had created a cordon around Tomlinson to give him CPR.
(17) There was a security cordon around the cemetery, where a high-level government delegation including the mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, stood on a stage draped in red and black and addressed a small crowd through loudspeakers.
(18) Amid reports that a large area around Qunu might be cordoned off for a funeral, she added: "I don't think that would be right."
(19) At the Green, where a local supermarket was set ablaze on Monday night, police kept the volunteers behind a cordon for fear of falling material from the building.
(20) More than 560 people were arrested across Toronto over the weekend after violence erupted between riot police and masked protesters as leaders of the G20 countries gathered behind the toughest security cordon in the history of the summit.
Insignia
Definition:
(n. pl.) Distinguishing marks of authority, office, or honor; badges; tokens; decorations; as, the insignia of royalty or of an order.
(n. pl.) Typical and characteristic marks or signs, by which anything is known or distinguished; as, the insignia of a trade.
Example Sentences:
(1) Roberts can't really explain why Wu Lyf's lyrics are full of neo-biblical imagery – all blood and fire and crowns – nor why one of their main insignia is a cross, but he does admit that he got suspended from secondary school for putting a picture of Ho Chi Minh's face on Christ's body.
(2) Now, I agree with Bridget that ruling out someone for wearing Nazi insignia is a good rule of thumb.
(3) He said the appearance of men carrying Russian weapons and wearing uniforms without insignia was a "grave development" and called on Russia to pull back its troops from Ukraine's border.
(4) If Mendelsohn is playing Tarkin, his Imperial-rank insignia and uniform are both subtly different to those sported by Cushing, though it’s possible the character simply picked up a promotion or two somewhere along the way.
(5) The Corps was created as a uniformed nonmilitary service with a distinct uniform, insignia, and with titles, pay, and retirement protocols that corresponded to those of the uniformed military services (the Armed Forces).
(6) Miriam Dagher, 53, from Qaraqosh, said churches in the city had already been torched and religious insignia smashed.
(7) While these units wear uniforms without insignia, they drive vehicles with Russian military license plates and freely identify themselves as Russian security forces when asked by the international media and the Ukrainian military.
(8) The school’s insignia features the Christian cross and a Latin motto translated as “learning and faith.” Reactions to the change in plans Thursday afternoon ranged from disappointment to ambivalence.
(9) The US state department said the pro-Russian operations over the weekend were highly organised and "planned in advance" with militants "outfitted in bullet-proof vests and camouflage uniforms with insignia removed and carrying Russian-origin weapons".
(10) Uefa has charged the Serbian and Albanian Football Associations after the brawl involving players, supporters and stewards was sparked by a drone carrying the insignia of so-called “Greater Albania”, with the governing body expected to enforce heavy sanctions.
(11) In an attempt to prove this, they scraped off part of the pyramid’s cartouche – the insignia that denotes for whom the pyramid was built – and took it back to Germany for testing.
(12) Moscow has denied it is behind the co-ordinated operation by gangs wearing uniforms without insignia, but Britain said Russia would be assumed to be complicit unless it condemned the actions.
(13) Hodgson had arrived in a Vauxhall Insignia and, to even louder groans, he was asked whether the squad amounted to a sports car or a family saloon.
(14) Parts of the downed F-117 wreckage, such as the left wing with US Air Force insignia, the cockpit canopy, ejection seat, pilot's helmet and radio, are exhibited at Belgrade's aviation museum.
(15) It is clear that some militiamen are locals, while others, in green uniforms but without insignia, are better armed and more disciplined – and similar to the forces that were deployed before Russia's annexation of the Crimea last month.
(16) Heavily-armed troops displaying no identifying insignia and local pro-Russian militants stand guard outside a local government building in Simferopol, Ukraine on 2 March, 2014.
(17) Putin denies that the men guarding Ukrainian military installations around the Crimea are Russian soldiers, despite the uniforms without insignia that resemble Russian military uniforms: The post-Soviet space is full of such uniforms ...
(18) The Uefa president Michel Platini said he was deeply saddened by the scenes, which were sparked when a drone carrying a flag bearing a “Greater Albania” insignia was flown over the stadium, leading to the match being abandoned after 40 minutes.
(19) Photograph: Hadley Freeman Everyone is just so damn excited to be there, including the celebrities, to the point that taking frequent selfies in front of the Oscars insignia seems almost obligatory.
(20) Despite the group claiming on screen that they are not neo-Nazis, but rather upholding a moral obligation to rid Russia of paedophiles (whom they conflate with homosexuals), the VK pages of Occupy Paedophilia and other similar groups are littered with Nazi insignia.