tricolor

[ trahy-kuhl-er; especially British trik-uh-ler ]

adjective
  1. Also tricolored; especially British, tricoloured. having three colors.

noun
  1. a flag having three colors.

  2. the national flag of France, adopted during the French Revolution, consisting of vertical bands of blue, white, and red.

Origin of tricolor

1
1780–90; <Late Latin tricolor, equivalent to tri-tri- + -color colored; see color
  • Also especially British, tri·col·our .

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How to use tricolor in a sentence

  • The tables were set on a terrace with plants and flowers about them, and covered with a tricolored awning.

    Gallegher and Other Stories | Richard Harding Davis
  • The officers of the army, instead of wearing the national tricolored cockade, affectatiously displayed enormous cockades of white.

  • He was rather better dressed than on the previous evening, and had a tricolored sash bound around his waist.

  • No one, however brave, could help "getting out from under," when he saw this tricolored whirlwind descending upon him.

    A Bird-Lover in the West | Olive Thorne Miller
  • Among the girls wearing tricolored sashes and carrying green palm boughs, he recognized Catherine.

    The Hero of the People | Alexandre Dumas