Couleur

Ribbon, cap and Zipfel of an Austrian Studentenverbindung
Couleur bands of the Zionist Verbindung Nehardea from Basel,[1] in the Jewish Museum of Switzerland’s collection.

Couleur (from French, meaning colour in English) is the expression used in Central European Studentenverbindungen for the various headgear and distinctive ribbons worn by members of these student societies.

There are three classes of such student societies:

  • Societies with no colours (so called schwarz, in English black)
  • Societies with colours but wearing no ribbon, no cap etc. They wear their colours e.g. in their coat of arms or as Zipfel.
  • Societies with colours and wearing a ribbon, a cap etc.
  1. ^ Battegay, Lubrich, Caspar, Naomi (2018). Jewish Switzerland: 50 Objects Tell Their Stories. Christoph Merian. pp. 134–137. ISBN 978-3856168476.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)