tricolor
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
tricolor
adj 1: having or involving three colors; "trichromatic vision";
"a trichromatic printing process"; "trichromatic staining
is the staining of tissue samples differentially in three
colors"; "tricolor plumage"; "a tricolor process in
photography" [syn: {trichromatic}, {trichrome},
{tricolor}]
n 1: a flag having three colored stripes (especially the French
flag) [syn: {tricolor}, {tricolour}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Tricolor \Tri"col`or\, n. [F. tricolore, drapeau tricolore a
tricolored flag, fr. tricolore three-colored; tri (see
{Tri-}) + L. color color.] [Written also {tricolour}.]
[1913 Webster]
1. The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white,
and red, adopted at the first revolution.
[1913 Webster]
2. Hence, any three-colored flag.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
74 Moby Thesaurus words for "tricolor":
Dannebrog, Jolly Roger, Old Glory, Star-Spangled Banner,
Stars and Stripes, Union Flag, Union Jack, and blue, banderole,
banner, banneret, bicolor, bicolored, black flag, blue ensign,
bunting, burgee, coachwhip, colorful, colors, colory, crazy,
daedal, dichromatic, divers-colored, ensign, flag, gonfalon,
gonfanon, guidon, harlequin, house flag, jack, kaleidoscopic,
long pennant, many-colored, medley, merchant flag, motley,
multicolor, multicolored, multicolorous, national flag, oriflamme,
parti-color, parti-colored, pennant, pennon, pennoncel,
polychromatic, polychrome, polychromic, prismal, red, red ensign,
royal standard, shot, shot through, signal flag, spectral,
standard, streamer, swallowtail, thunder and lightning,
trichromatic, trichromic, tricolored, two-tone, varicolored,
variegated, versicolor, versicolored, vexillum, white
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