Cocked hat with the brim turned up to form three points

Usage examples of tricorne.

Instead Sharpe snatched the tricorne hat off his head and ripped the black, gold and scarlet cockade of the Netherlands from its crown.

She grudged the money for the costume-hire, but when Ripon called for her, not very happily dis­guised as a toreador, she was ready in an outfit which included a large panniered skirt and a tricorne hat, which the costumier called a Venetian Domino.

And of these there was of a truth a most goodly array this year: mountebanks and jugglers from every corner of the world, so it seemed, for there was a man with a face as black as my lord's tricorne, and another with such flat yellow cheeks as made one think of batter pudding, and spring aconite, of eggs and other very yellow things.

Before him sits the traditional tricorne hat and the clerk, a portly and distinguished-appearing man, reads the commission naming 'beloved and faithful counsellors, Lord Keeper of our Privy Seal and the Lord Chief Justice of England, most dear cousin counsellors, most noble knights' in their full and lengthy titles.

Miss Heliotrope's black poke bonnet with itsnodding purple feathers always seemed to look larger and more imposingthan usual on Sundays, perhaps because of the increased solemnity ofher face inside it, but today it was almost eclipsed in majesty by SirBenjamin's Sunday hat, an enormous mulberry colored tricorne affair thesize of a cartwheel, that sat very insecurely upon the top of his whitepowdered wig, with a tendency to slip rakishly over his left eyewhenever the carriage jolted.

She wore thigh high black leather boots, a red jewelled bolero, and a scanty red patch covering her pubic hairs - nothing else except for a red tricorne hat atop her mound of yellow curls.

She shook out her ruffles, put on her point-edged tricorne, and professed herself in readiness to start.