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Like the U.S. flag, in terms of hues
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tricolor
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adj. having or involving three colors; "trichromatic vision"; "a trichromatic printing process"; "trichromatic staining is the staining of tissue samples differentially in three colors"; "tricolor plumage"; "a tricolor process in photography" [syn: trichromatic ...
Usage examples of tricolor.
For the grab-bag Emperor they suggested Alexander as much as Hannibal, the trophies of Egypt, the tricolor flying from Acre to Lisbon.
Before the swarm of people at the Hotel de Ville, many of them seeing in the old Marshal their chance for a republic, he draped Louis-Philippe in the tricolor as though it were the toga of his constitutionalism and shoved him unceremoniously to the balcony.
For a king who would survive, nothing less than a great tricolor winding sheet was necessary.
Notre Dame de la Liberte is framed against the background of Notre Dame de Paris, already conquered for Freedom, the tricolor flying from its towers.
So he invented the tricolor cockade as an obligatory badge of patriotic identity.
But it was Lafayette, with his innate genius for political theater, who crowned the moment by embracing a noncommissioned officer of the bodyguard and pinning a tricolor cockade on his hat.
Dutch, Swiss, even Indian, Turkish and Persian, all of them encircled with the tricolor sash.
In March and April 1790 more men wearing tricolor sashes arrived at convents and monasteries to ensure that the decrees of the Assembly were being communicated and respected by abbots and mothers superior.
Oratoire and the cross of Saint-Louis, which he still wore beneath the tricolor sash.
Wrapping themselves in the tricolor and binding each other in solemn oaths, they would constitute the invincible phalanx of patriotism.
Four white horses caparisoned only with the tricolor drew the chariot.
September 1791, a hot-air balloon, trailing tricolor ribbons, floated above the Champs Elysees to announce the formal acceptance of the constitution by the King.
At bottom right an official, swathed in a tricolor sash, inspects the disposal of bodies while a figure beside him makes notes in a register.
For in the same week that the tricolor fell in the Flemish mud at Neerwinden, the Department of the Vendee had risen in bloody insurrection against the Republic.
For good or ill, it was as a military banner that the tricolor made its appearance from Lisbon to Cairo.