Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of tricolored.
There is not the ſmalleſt doubt but this day the tri-coloured flag is floating[…]
1792 May 9, Evening Mail, London, column 22 more examples
He took notice of the inſubordination of the troops, and mentioned particularly the ſecond battalion of the regiment of Beauce, which had refuſed to quit the tri-coloured ribband which M. de Rochambeau inſiſted ſhould not be worn.
1791 September 3, The Times, number 2119, London, column 1“The big picture is that the bats in Ontario, little brown bats, tri-coloured, small-footed and northern long-eared bats, they’ve experienced a 95- to 100-per-cent collapse,” Hooton said.
2019 December 26, Blair Crawford, “Back from the brink”, in Ottawa Citizen, page A2
Cite this entry
tri-coloured. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tri-coloured
“tri-coloured.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tri-coloured. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tri-coloured,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tri-coloured.
Source: tri-coloured on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.