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Meanings of tricolour in English

Russian
триколор
Portuguese
tricolor
Spanish
tricolor
Catalan
tricolor

Flag with three bands of different colours.

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Examples for "tricolor"
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A French tricolor flew above the entrance of the small town house.
Rage of angels
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The Bernese Mountain Dog has that traditional tricolor of the Swiss breeds.
Wired
3
The tricolor surmounts the palace of the senator; the senator himself has fled.
At Home And Abroad; Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europ...
4
The boys made it out in an instant-thetricolor of France.
The Boy Allies under Two Flags
5
He waved the long proscribed tricolor slowly over the heads of the people.
The Liberation of Italy, 1815-1870
1
The tricolour flag waves over the Buttes-Montmartre and the Northern Railway station.
The Insurrection in Paris
2
French symbols such as the tricolour flag and national anthem will be promoted.
Reuters
3
They paint the country's tricolour flag on their faces or stencil it in their hair.
The Irish Times
4
The tricolour flag has just been attached to the statue, amid faint cheers from the crowd.
The Insurrection in Paris
5
The Scattered Isles fly the tricolour flag as part of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.
News.com.au
1
Before March had ended, the tricolor flag was displayed on every tower of France.
The History of Napoleon Buonaparte
2
Fort and vessel dipped the tricolor flag of the States-General and the municipal banner of Amsterdam.
Tales of the Chesapeake
3
A helicopter, its shiny surface plastered with Libya's monarchy-era tricolor flag, hovered low above the crowd.
Reuters
4
But his voice wasn't very musical and only the final verse, a patriotic one mentioning the tricolor flag, was a success.
L'Assommoir
5
As they dispersed, one man held up a French tricolor flag with the words "Thank you, Nicolas" printed on it.
Reuters
Usage of tricolour in English
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The tricolour flag waves over the Buttes-Montmartre and the Northern Railway station.
The Insurrection in Paris
2
Ferrol picked up the tricolour and handed it to the Regimental Surgeon.
The Pomp of the Lavilettes, Volume 2
3
It was the Emperor's soft flat beaver with the little tricolour cockade.
Uncle Bernac: A Memory of the Empire
4
Then a little later tricolour rockets, red, white and green, went up.
With British Guns in Italy: A Tribute to Italian Achievement
5
French symbols such as the tricolour flag and national anthem will be promoted.
Reuters
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The lugger ran up the tricolour and fired a round-shot at the brig.
True Blue
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A far greater prize fell to the tricolour at the close of 1893.
The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.)
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Defiant waving of the tricolour by young men with tight haircuts.
The Irish Times
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It's a lifestyle decision to wave the tricolour or recite odes to 1916.
The Irish Times
10
But he remembers standing on the podium wearing the tricolour very well indeed.
The Irish Times
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Accompanying the tricolour was a banner calling for the release of Roisin McAliskey.
The Irish Times
12
She was flying her tricolour out there within sight of my pavilion windows.
Rodney Stone
13
Then I spied the Irish tricolour in the sea of half a million people.
The Irish Times
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Issue them with large blow-up plastic tricolour-coloured hammers and you'd have instant football supporters.
The Irish Times
15
A new flag, le drapeau étoilé, floated along with the tricolour in the square.
One of Ours
16
Her coffin was draped with the French tricolour and flanked by a military guard.
The Irish Times
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