history polish lancers?

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what do you call the adornment on the hat of a polish lancer, is it a cockade?
thank you for your answers they were helpfull
 
I have heard of it called that (see 1st cite), but the site below calls it a mohawk! Cockade, comes from the word for male bird, because it imitated the head-crown of a rooster, or other male bird.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cockade

http://www.cavhooah.com/polish.htm
 
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