tri-coloured

See also: tricoloured

English

Adjective

tri-coloured (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of tricolored
    • 1791 September 3, The Times‎, number 2119, London, column 1:
      He took notice of the inſubordination of the troops, and mentioned particularly the ſecond battalion of the regiment of Beauce, which had refuſed to quit the tri-coloured ribband which M. de Rochambeau inſiſted ſhould not be worn.
    • 1792 May 9, Evening Mail‎, London, column 2:
      There is not the ſmalleſt doubt but this day the tri-coloured flag is floating […]
    • 2019 December 26, Blair Crawford, “Back from the brink”, in Ottawa Citizen, page A2:
      “The big picture is that the bats in Ontario, little brown bats, tri-coloured, small-footed and northern long-eared bats, they’ve experienced a 95- to 100-per-cent collapse,” Hooton said.
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