A seal or official mark of approval on goods, especially merchandise approved for export in medieval times; a customs document.
From Middle English, possibly from Old French 'coquet' (coquette) or related to 'cock' (a seal or stamp mark). This term emerged in medieval trade to describe the official seal indicating goods had been inspected and could be exported.
When international trade was booming in the Middle Ages, merchants needed official proof their goods were legitimate—a 'cocket' was like the medieval shipping label or customs stamp. These documents were so important that the wooden press used to make them was called a 'cocket box,' and the office issuing them was the 'cocket house.'
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