TRICOLOUR

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does tricolour mean? 

• TRICOLOUR (noun)
  The noun TRICOLOUR has 1 sense:

1. a flag having three colored stripes (especially the French flag)

  Familiarity information: TRICOLOUR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRICOLOUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A flag having three colored stripes (especially the French flag)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

tricolor; tricolour

Hypernyms ("tricolour" is a kind of...):

flag (emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design)

Domain region:

France; French Republic (a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)

 Context examples 

She was flying her tricolour out there within sight of my pavilion windows.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Young as I was, I knew that if there were any freedom left in Europe it was to these men that we owed it; and I seemed to read upon their grim, harsh features the record of that long ten years of struggle which had swept the tricolour from the seas.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With the same good fighting man he served at the Nile, where the men of his command sponged and rammed and trained until, when the last tricolour had come down, they hove up the sheet anchor and fell dead asleep upon the top of each other under the capstan bars.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)