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Dictionary: tri·col·or   (trī'kŭl'ər) pronunciation
n.
  1. A flag having three colors.
  2. also Tricolor The French flag.
adj. also tri·col·ored (-ərd)
Having three colors.


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Veterinary Dictionary: tricolor
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Describes a coat color of dogs and cats which has orange and black patches (similar to the tortoiseshell) but has in addition patches of white hair; see tortoiseshell.

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IN BRIEF: A flag having three colored stripes. Having or involving three colors.

pronunciation The flags of France, Italy, and the United States are all tricolored.

Wikipedia: Tricolour
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French tricolour flag, the "Tricolore"

A tricolour or tricolor (three colours) is a flag or banner more-or-less equally divided (horizontally, vertically, or, less frequently, diagonally) into three bands of differing colors. The term is somewhat misleading, as many tricolours have more than three colors, as they are often charged with contrasting emblems (the flag of India as a prominent example).

Besides carrying an emblem, another means by which a tricolour may have more than three colours is through the use of fimbriation: the separation of colours on a flag by a narrow contrasting stripe. In a fimbriated tricolour, the three broad bands are separated by two thin stripes on either side of the central band. Flags of this type include the flags of Uzbekistan, Kenya, North Korea, and Gambia.

One of the first tricolours and the oldest tricolour still in use today is the flag of the Netherlands; one of the first vertical tricolours is the tricolore of France.

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Variety of triband

The tricolour is a specific type of triband. In a triband, the design is of three vertical, horizontal, or diagonal stripes, often formed—from an heraldic point of view—by the placement of a vertical or horizontal stripe (a pale or a fess, respectively), over a background. The triband may thus have two stripes of the same colour split by a stripe of a second colour (examples of this include the flags of Austria, Canada, and Spain).

In a tricolour, the two outer stripes are of different colours. They can thus be seen as a subset of tribands.

Additional meanings

Vexillologists also occasionally describe flags of which the main element is three stripes as being "based on a tricolour (or triband) design".[citation needed] Flags such as the flag of the Bahamas and the Palestinian flag fall into this category.

Some vexillologists take the meaning of the term at its barest, and simply use it to describe any flag containing just three colours, irrespective of the design.[citation needed] Thus, the flags of the United States and the United Kingdom might be described as tricolours, while the flag of India (which has a blue charge in the centre) would not.

Examples

Flag of Armenia (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Armenia (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Belgium (vertical tricolour)
Flag of Belgium (vertical tricolour)
Flag of Chad (vertical tricolour)
Flag of Chad (vertical tricolour)
Flag of Colombia (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Colombia (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of the Republic of the Congo (diagonal tricolour)
Flag of the Republic of the Congo (diagonal tricolour)
Flag of Croatia (charged horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Croatia (charged horizontal tricolour)
Flag of France (vertical tricolour)
Flag of France (vertical tricolour)
Flag of the Gambia (fimbriated tricolour)
Flag of the Gambia (fimbriated tricolour)
Flag of Germany (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Germany (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of India (charged horizontal tricolour)
Flag of India (charged horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Iran (charged horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Iran (charged horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Ireland (vertical tricolour)
Flag of Ireland (vertical tricolour)
Flag of Italy (vertical tricolour)
Flag of Italy (vertical tricolour)
Flag of Mexico (charged vertical tricolour)
Flag of Mexico (charged vertical tricolour)
Flag of the Netherlands (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of the Netherlands (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Russia (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Russia (horizontal tricolour)

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Translations: Tricolor
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - trikolore
adj. - trefarvet

Nederlands (Dutch)
driekleur(ig), Franse of Ierse vlag

Français (French)
n. - drapeau tricolore, (le) drapeau français
adj. - tricolore

Deutsch (German)
n. - dreifarbige Fahne, franz. Nationalfahne
adj. - dreifarbig

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - τρίχρωμη σημαία, τρικολόρ (ιδ. για τη γαλλική)
adj. - τρίχρωμος

Italiano (Italian)
tricolore

Português (Portuguese)
n. - tricolor (m)
adj. - tricolor

Русский (Russian)
трехцветный, Французский флаг

Español (Spanish)
n. - bandera tricolor
adj. - tricolor

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - trikolor, trefärgad flagga
adj. - trefärgad, trefärgs-

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
三色旗, 三原色, 三基色, 三色的

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 三色旗, 三原色, 三基色
adj. - 三色的

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 3색기
adj. - 3색의, 3색기의

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 三色の
n. - 三色旗, フランス国旗

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) علم مثلث ألألوان (صفه) مثلث أللوان‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮דגל תלת-גוני, דגל צרפת‬
adj. - ‮תלת-גוני‬


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