tricolour

plural tricolours · alternative US tricolor

1. UKA 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.

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   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

2. UKuncommonAnything 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

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   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

alternative US tricolor

1. UKnot comparableHaving three colours.

   tricolour film

   Synonyms: trichromatic, trichrome, tricolored

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of Tricolor.
2. Indiathe Indian flag

   Synonyms: Tiranga