What is another word for tricolour?

Pronunciation: [tɹˈa͡ɪkʌlə] (IPA)

Tricolour is a term commonly used to describe a flag or emblem consisting of three colours. Synonyms for tricolour include tri-coloured, three-coloured, tri-band, tri-hued, and triple-hued. Other words that can be used to describe flags with three colours include triband, tricolor, and trichromatic. The use of tricolours is especially prevalent in national flags and often has significant symbolism. For example, the Indian flag features orange, white, and green, which respectively represent courage, purity, and prosperity. The French tricolour is blue, white, and red and represents liberty, equality, and fraternity. Overall, tricolours play an important role in representing national identity and ideals.

What are the hypernyms for Tricolour?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Tricolour

By this time I was extremely excited and extraordinarily merry, and losing hold of my judgment, began to indulge in sundry pleasantries concerning his nation and countrymen, asking with many explosions of laughter, how it was that they continued at the trouble of building ships for us to use against them, and if he did not think the "flower de louse" a neater symbol for people who put snuff into their soup and restricted their ablutions to their faces than the tricolour, being too muddled to consider that he was ignorant of that flag; and in short I was so offensive, in spite of my ridiculous merriment, that his savage nature broke out.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
In the evening of that day Connolly hoisted over Liberty Hall, the headquarters of the Citizen Army, the Irish tricolour of orange, white and green, the flag designed by the Young Irelanders in 1848 to symbolise the union of the Orange and Green by the white bond of a common brotherhood.
"The Evolution of Sinn Fein"
Robert Mitchell Henry
"You will pardon me, gentlemen, when you know who I am," said the intruder, and throwing open his coat he showed his tricolour scarf.
"Fantômas"
Pierre Souvestre Marcel Allain

Famous quotes with Tricolour

  • Socialism, or the Red Republic, is all one; for it would tear down the tricolour and set up the red flag. It would make penny pieces out of the Column Vendome. It would knock down the statue of Napoleon and raise up that of Marat in its stead. It would suppress the Académie, the Ecole Polytechnique, and the Legion of Honour. To the grand device Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, it would add “Ou la mort. It would bring about a general bankruptcy. It would ruin the rich without enriching the poor. It would destroy labour, which gives to each one his bread. It would abolish property and family. It would march about with the heads of the proscribed on pikes, fill the prisons with the suspected, and empty them by massacres. It would convert France into the country of gloom. It would strangle liberty, stifle the arts, silence thought, and deny God. It would bring into action these two fatal machines, one of which never works without the other—the assignat press and the guillotine. In a word, it would do in cold blood what the men of 1793 did in fever, and after the grand horrors which our fathers saw, we should have the horrible in all that was low and small.
    Victor Hugo

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