tricorn

• “The rally intends to call “the GOP back to its roots,” if by “roots,” you mean lots of people in tricorn hats, whose idea of a good time is batting around their favorite economists from the Austrian School.”

  slightly smeary article about ron paul

• “The woman sitting next to Miss Temple, who had preceded her into the coach, wore a kind of tricorn hat rakishly pinned to her hair, and a thin band of cloth tied over her eyes, quite like a pirate.”

  The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters

• “Your typical pirate hat is called a "tricorn" or 3-cornered hat.”

  BellaOnline - The Voice of Women

• “Wearing his Virginia militia uniform—red coat with white lace cuffs, red vest and breeches, black boots, a black tricorn—on April 2 Washington climbed atop a tall horse and rode out at the head of a corps of men wearing cloth coats, breeches, and hunting shirts.”

  Simon & Schuster: George Washington’s First War

• “Today, Glen Beck's tea people enjoy wearing tricorn hats, but does anyone doubt that they would have been Tories during the American Revolution?”

  The Washington Post: The true American patriots

• “April 26th, 2010 at 3: 35 pm tombaker says: we should chip in and get freeman a tricorn (made of organic materials, of course) so he can go get down with his teabagger soulmates, and help them “take back” america.”

  Think Progress » Beck calls Bush a ‘progressive,’ says Obama is doing ‘exactly’ the same thing.

• “But after years of armed struggle against New York's royal governors and sheriffs over the New Hampshire Grants, 37-year-old Ethan Allen—tall, muscular and "a commanding figure in his forest green greatcoat and sheared beaver tricorn hat"—and his Green Mountain Boys were ready to fight for independence.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Founding Father (Of Vermont)

• “I was thinking of marketing tinfoil tricorn hats for the Tea Tards.”

  Think Progress » Obama bumper sticker fuels violent political road rage in Tennessee.

• “But that didn't stop them from engaging in some ribbing -- particularly about the costumed protesters who often show up at tea party rallies wearing tricorn hats and other early-American garb to demonstrate their commitment to what they say are the values of the Founding Fathers.”

  The Washington Post: The tea partiers next door: Friends, neighbors divide over party lines

• “Mr. Jiang sparred openly with his hosts over human rights, but also charmed them, for example, by trying on a colonial tricorn hat in Williamsburg and reciting part of the Gettysburg Address on a tour of the White House.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Beijing Hails Start of a New Era

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