Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A flag having three colors.
- noun The French flag.
- adjective Having three colors.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Three-colored; tricolored: in zoölogy correlated with bicolor and unicolor.
- noun A flag composed of three colors in large masses equal or nearly equal, as the national flags of Italy and Mexico; especially, the flag of France adopted during the Revolution, consisting of three equal parts—blue next the mast, red at the fly, and white between, or, in heraldic language, palewise of three pieces, azure, argent, and gules. The red and blue represented the colors of the city of Paris.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution.
- noun Hence, any three-colored flag.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having
three colors . - noun Alternative spelling of
tricolour .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having or involving three colors
- noun a flag having three colored stripes (especially the French flag)
Etymologies
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Examples
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The waitresses, Kimi and Haruko, circulated in short tricolor skirts.
December 6 Smith, Martin Cruz 2002
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“Bleu” the first installment of Kieslowski’s trilogy tied to the French tricolor is an arresting, heartfelt and finally nobly idealistic study of Julie Vignon (Juliette Binoche) as a grief-stricken widow who lost her composer husband and 5-year-old daughter in the same car crash she survived.
2009 August 2009
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Meagher was very important, too, because he brought back the present Irish flag from France, a tricolor, which is now the flag which flies over the Republic of Ireland.
The Great Shame & the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World 2000
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The tricolor is a French flag -- not the banner of humanity.
The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English Julian Hawthorne 1890
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France uses the "tricolor," a flag of three vertical equal stripes, red, white, and blue, the blue being nearest the staff.
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Yet she was elegantly dressed and evidently en fete, with one or two "tricolor" knots and ribbons mingled with her finery.
Under the Redwoods Bret Harte 1869
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Flora Suecica, 791; under titles of Viola 'tricolor' and 'bicolor arvensis,' and Herba Trinitatis.
Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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'' tricolor '' of France with the Auvergnat shield in the canton.
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'' tricolor '' of France with the Auvergnat shield in the canton.
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'' tricolor '' of France with the Auvergnat shield in the canton.
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