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  • adjective Alternative spelling of tricolored.

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Examples

  • Dancing, hugging, weeping, stamping, whistle-blowing and, of course, wriggling into those trademark tricoloured jackets then tossing them aside with abandon, the Venezuelan Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra – named after a pioneering 19th-century composer-pianist who married enough musical husbands to form her own small chamber group – ended its European tour on a blazing and noisy high on Thursday in the second of two London concerts.

    Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra of Venezuela; Benjamin Grosvenor, LSO; Promised End; Radamisto Fiona Maddocks 2010

  • March 19, 2008 at 8:12 am that kind of colour tricoloured kitteh! is always female due to genetics… so “he” should be replaced by “she”

    give him a shove in 3…2…1… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Just think of how much Jamaican immigrants contribute to our culture and economy: monotonous, illiterate music that all sounds the same, filthy hairstyles, those little tricoloured Rasta doohickies.

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

  • Just think of how much Jamaican immigrants contribute to our culture and economy: monotonous, illiterate music that all sounds the same, filthy hairstyles, those little tricoloured Rasta doohickies.

    But we mustn't call it racism 2007

  • Addresses were prepared, public functionaries assembled and debated secretly, apartments were got ready, and tricoloured banners and triumphal emblems manufactured, to welcome the arrival of His

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • Attached to the stop-plank of the gable a bunch of straw mixed with corn-ears fluttered its tricoloured ribbons in the wind.

    Madame Bovary 2003

  • It was determined that the garden of the Tuileries should be closed: as soon as this step was taken the Assembly decreed that the whole length of the Terrace des Feuillans belonged to it, and fixed the boundary between what was called the national ground and the Coblentz ground by a tricoloured ribbon stretched from one end of the terrace to the other.

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

  • The crowd that was pressing round was kept back, and compelled to keep a line, by a tricoloured ribbon, held at short distances by gendarmes.

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

  • She had fixed a tricoloured cockade, which one of the National Guard had given her, upon her head.

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

  • Down goes the book once more, and the student is as mad as his neighbours as the victorious ship and her prizes, with the Jack flying triumphantly over the tricoloured flag, sails majestically into the harbour amid deafening cheers ....

    Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

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