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red, white and blue en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (US) Quintessentially American.
   • Some folks are born made to raise the flag / they're red, white and blue 1969, Creedence Clearwater Revival, “Fortunate Son”, in Willy and the Poor Boys:
   • He's an intelligent man who reads books and knows history, but he could not bring himself to admit that a Puerto Rican girl's childhood in the Bronx was just as red, white, and blue as an Irish American boy's childhood in Washington. 2011, Eugene Robinson, Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America, →ISBN, page 99:
   • This multilingual grunter would fit right in, as red, white and blue as a telephone solicitor hyping penny stocks to shutin geriatrics. 2010, Stephen Coonts, The Red Horseman, →ISBN:
   • What is more red, white, and blue than cheeseburgers! 2007, David Harsanyi, Nanny State, →ISBN:

Forms

Relateds

bleu, blanc et rouge

Translations (11)

sh црвено плаво и бело (a flag of these three colours) · nl rood, wit en blauw (a flag of these three colours) · cs bílá, modrá a červená (a flag of these three colours) · ru бело-сине-красный (a flag of these three colours) · th แดงขาวและน้ำเงิน (a flag of these three colours) · fr bleu, blanc et rouge (a flag of these three colours) · sk biela, modrá a červená (a flag of these three colours) · sl bela modra in rdeča (a flag of these three colours) · sh crveno plavo i belo (a flag of these three colours) · ru бе́сик (a flag of these three colours) · sh crvena bijela plava (a flag of these three colours)

red, white and blue en · PROPN

Meanings

1. (UK) The flag of the United Kingdom.
   • Forget not the boys of Kilmichael, those brave lads so gallant and true. Who fought 'neath the green flag of Erin, and conquered the red, white and blue. p. 1920, The Boys of Kilmichael (Irish Song, author unknown)
2. (US) The flag of the United States of America.
   • Thy banners make tyranny tremble, When borne by the red, white and blue. 1843, David T. Shaw, “Columbia – the Gem of the Ocean”, Lee & Walker, page 5
3. The flag of France.
   • The Fourteenth of July was declared the national holiday and a new flag, the tricolor, the red, white, and blue, was adopted in place of the old white banner of the Bourbons, studded with the fleur-de-lis. 1917, Charles Downer Hazen, The French Revolution ad Napoleon, Henry Holt, page 120
4. The flag of the Netherlands.
   • Many houses now were showing flags, and the red, white and blue was a jubilation in the morning sun. 2010, Cornelia Fuykschot, Hunger in Holland, Publisher, page 144
5. The flag of Russia.
   • Lit in the national colours of red, blue and white.
   • 2013, Catherine Merridale, Red Fortress, Penguin, page 228: