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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tricolor \Tri"col'or\, noun [F. tricolore, drapeau tricolore a tricolored flag, fr. tricolore three-colored; tri (see {Tri-}) + L. color color.] [Written also {tricolour}.]
1. The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution.
2. Hence, any three-colored flag.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
tricolor
adjective: having or involving three colors; "trichromatic vision"; "a trichromatic printing process"; "trichromatic staining is the staining of tissue samples differentially in three colors"; "tricolor plumage"; "a tricolor process in photography" [syn: {trichromatic}, {trichrome}]
noun: a flag having three colored stripes (especially the French flag) [syn: {tricolour}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
74 Moby Thesaurus words for "tricolor": Dannebrog, Jolly Roger, Old Glory, Star-Spangled Banner, Stars and Stripes, Union Flag, Union Jack, and blue, banderole, banner, banneret, bicolor, bicolored, black flag, blue ensign, bunting, burgee, coachwhip, colorful, colors, colory, crazy, daedal, dichromatic, divers-colored, ensign, flag, gonfalon, gonfanon, guidon, harlequin, house flag, jack, kaleidoscopic, long pennant, many-colored, medley, merchant flag, motley, multicolor, multicolored, multicolorous, national flag, oriflamme, parti-color, parti-colored, pennant, pennon, pennoncel, polychromatic, polychrome, polychromic, prismal, red, red ensign, royal standard, shot, shot through, signal flag, spectral, standard, streamer, swallowtail, thunder and lightning, trichromatic, trichromic, tricolored, two-tone, varicolored, variegated, versicolor, versicolored, vexillum, white
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