Crossword clues for tricolour
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tricolor \Tri"col`or\, n. [F. tricolore, drapeau tricolore a tricolored flag, fr. tricolore three-colored; tri (see Tri-) + L. color color.] [Written also tricolour.]
The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution.
Hence, any three-colored flag.
Wiktionary
n. A flag consisting of three stripes that are either vertical or horizontal; all of equal size, and of a different colour each.
WordNet
n. a flag having three colored stripes (especially the French flag) [syn: tricolor]
Wikipedia
A tricolour is a type of flag or banner design with a triband design which originated in the 16th century as a symbol of republicanism, liberty or indeed revolution. The flags of France, Italy, Romania, Mexico, and Ireland were all first adopted with the formation of an independent republic in the period of the French Revolution to the Revolutions of 1848, with the exception of the Irish tricolour, which dates from 1848 but was not popularised until the Easter Rising in 1916 and adopted in 1919.
Usage examples of "tricolour".
Antoine de la Mery yelled at them to desist, as he struggled to fasten the tricolour sash around his waist.
Pitt and the resurrection of Lord Grey: but, ever on the watch for a cry to carry them into power, they mistook the yell of Jacobinism for the chorus of an emancipated people, and fancied, in order to take the throne by storm, that nothing was wanting but to hoist the tricolour and to cover their haughty brows with a red cap.
There it burst open and the tricolour of the Dutch Republic streamed out on the southeaster, orange and snowy white and blue, Within moments the other banners and long pennants burst out from the head of the mizzen and the foremast, one emblazoned with the cipher of the VOC, die Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, the United East India Company.
A stunned silence fell upon the party as they saw the row of four iron ladies, gleaming in their new coats of grey, with the heavily jacketed water-cooled barrels of the Vickers machine guns protruding from the ports and the rakish turrets emblazoned with the tricolour horizontal bars of the Ethiopian national colours green, yellow and red.
Royale-les-Eaux, backed by trim lawns emblazoned at intervals with tricolour beds of salvia, alyssum and lobelia, was bright with nags and, on the longest beach in the north of France, the gay bathing tents still marched prettily down to the tide-line in big, money-making battalions.
He had already sequestered the French tricolour that had flown over the Teste de Buch, but his Midshipman had so far failed to find the American ensign.
Completed too late for Trafalgar, she had had only a brief career under the Tricolour before she was attacked and captured by two of the blockading squadron while on passage from Belle Isle to Brest.
The flag was not the blue ensign of the Navy, nor the tricolour of France, nor even the white banner of the exiled French monarchy.
The tricolour here was hoisted above a tattered blue ensign, flaunting a petty triumph.
It was as if a prisoner were appealing to them for aid, and the flapping colours, tricolour over blue ensign, told a tragic story.
They have the Tricolour on one halyard and the British flag ' on another, so they can haul down one independently of the other.
He glanced towards the captured frigate as she yawned astern of the Spartan, a bright red ensign flying above her Tricolour.
A white puff showed at the frigate's bows, and shifting his gaze he saw the red ensign break out at her mizen-peak: he frowned: he would at least have tried the tricolour or, with the big American frigates in those waters, the Stars and Stripes.
The hands came tumbling up from breakfast in a perfect babble of sound - the order to clear for action, the tricolour at the peak, the mountains of Spain ahead, the morning's capture, all combining to work them up into wild excitement.
The hands came tumbling up from breakfast in a perfect babble of sound the order to clear for action, the tricolour at the peak, the mountains of Spain ahead, the morning's capture, all combining to work them up into wild excitement.