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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A hat having the brim turned up on three sides.
  2. adj. Having three corners, horns, or projections.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Having three horns or horn-like processes.
  2. n. A hat with three points or horns; a cocked hat having the brim folded upward against the crown on three sides, producing three angles; hence, by popular misapplication, the hat worn by the French gendarmes, which has only two points: usually written as French, tricorne. See cut 13 under hat.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A three-sided hat with the brim turned up
  2. n. mathematics A three-horned fractal
  3. adj. Having three horns or similar projections

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. cocked hat with the brim turned up to form three points

Etymologies

  1. French tricorne, from Latin tricornis, three-horned : tri-, tri- + cornū, horn. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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