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tricolour en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈtraɪˌkʌlɚ/ (US)
- /ˈtraɪˌkʌlə/ (UK)
- /ˈtrɪkələ (UK)
- -lɔː/ (UK)
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
An anglicisation of the French tricolore; the flag originated in France. Equivalent to tri- + colour.
Meanings
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(UK, not-comparable) Having three colours.
Forms
Deriveds
tricolour sharkminnow · tricolour shark
Relateds
red, white and blue
Synonyms
trichrome · tricolored · trichromatic
Translations (23)
fi kolmivärinen (having three colors) · pt tricolor (having three colors) · pl trójkolorowy (having three colors) · pt tricromático (having three colors) · nl driekleurig (having three colors) · fr trichromate (having three colors) · ga trídhathach (having three colors) · pl trójbarwny (having three colors) · ko 삼색 (having three colors) · bho तिरंगा (having three colors) · ru трёхцве́тный (having three colors) · es tricolor (having three colors) · ja 三色 (having three colors) · de dreifarbig (having three colors) · it tricolore (having three colors) · fr tricolore (having three colors) · cmn 三色的 (having three colors) · vo kilakölik (having three colors) · es tricrómico (having three colors) · gv tree-chroamatagh (having three colors) · gv treeghaagh (having three colors) · vo kilkölik (having three colors) · la tricolor (having three colors)
tricolour en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈtraɪˌkʌlɚ/ (US)
- /ˈtraɪˌkʌlə/ (UK)
- /ˈtrɪkələ (UK)
- -lɔː/ (UK)
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
An anglicisation of the French tricolore; the flag originated in France. Equivalent to tri- + colour.
Meanings
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(UK) A flag consisting of three stripes that are either vertical or horizontal, all of equal size, and each of a different colour.
Tricolours are seen in the national flags of over twenty countries, including Belgium, France, India, Italy, Russia, The Netherlands and Ireland.
Journalists too were unwelcome and photographers had to conceal cameras. “He’s with the Guardian,” a man in his 60s, holding a tricolour, shouted.
2023 November 24, Rory Carroll, “‘Government is not listening’: anger over immigration spills into riot on Dublin’s streets”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
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(UK, uncommon) Anything which is composed of three colours.
[…] to the Indian red. The black, to complete the racial tricolor, was yet to come. The white population settled, as the more advanced Indian groups had, in areas having the most comfortable temperatures.
1946, Russell Humke Fitzgibbon, Flaud C. Wooton, Flaud Conaroe Wooton, Latin America: Past and Present, page 38:David Hammons would go one^([sic]) to produce his own national colors, to subvert the boundaries of nation with his Pan-African Flag (1990), a version of the American tricolor reimagined in the black internationalist tones of red, green, and black.
2019 January 31, W. Ian Bourland, Bloodflowers: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s, Duke University Press, →ISBN:
Forms
Relateds
La Tri · El Tri
Translations (57)
es tricolor (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · uk триколо́р (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · vi cờ tam tài (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · bg трикольор (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · th ธงไตรรงค์ (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · nn trikolor (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · sh trobojnica (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · hu trikolór (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · hi तिरंगा (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · nl nationale driekleur (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · az üçrəngli bayraq (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · id triwarna (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · ga trídhathach (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · cs trikolóra (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · he טריקולור (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · sl tribarvnica (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · ja 三色旗 (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · bg трицвет (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · fi trikolori (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · bg трибагреник (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · lv trikolors (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · ml ത്രിവർണം (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · tr üç renkli (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · lld triculëur (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · nb trikolor (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · lt trispalvė (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · be трыкалор (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · nl driekleur (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · cmn 三色旗 (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · sv trikolor (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · az üçrəngli (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · hy եռագույն (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · ca tricolor (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · sh тробојка (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · gl tricolor (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · ko 삼색기 (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · it tricolore (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · ka სამფერი დროშა (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · sh trobojka (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · ru триколо́р (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · fa پرچم سهرنگ (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · cy trilliw (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · ro tricolor (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · ml ത്രിരംഗ (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · et trikoloor (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · pl flaga trójkolorowa (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · eo trikoloro (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · ms triwarna (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · ar عَلَم ثُلَاثِيّ الْأَلْوَانِ (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · sh тробојница (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · sk trikolóra (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · el τρίχρωμη σημαία (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · ru трёхцве́тный фла́г (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · da trikolore (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · pt tricolor (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · fr tricolore (A flag with three stripes of different colours) · de Trikolore (A flag with three stripes of different colours)