bicorne
bicorne is the alternative form of bicorn.
Meaning of bicorn
Noun
bicorn (plural bicorns)
- A two-cornered hat, worn by European and American military and naval officers from the 1790s.
- Just last Sunday, one of the estimated 20 surviving bicorne hats worn by Napoleon was sold at auction for €1.9mn, a price that vindicates the famous epigram, attributed to the emperor among others, that there is but one step separating the sublime from the ridiculous.2023 November 25, Simon Schama, “Napoleon and the mythmakers”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1
- A plane curve having two cusps.
- A beast having two horns, either real or fictional.
- What a stir about nothing! Phenicopter is no more (pace Dr Septimus Wind and his eyriecal friend, Dr Eagles) than the common flamingo (simplex). Why ask such silly questions? What, for example, is a caterpillar? and why so denominated? There is the common quail as there is the common flag-beetle. A...1882 July 8, “To Correspondents”, in The Musical World, volume LX, number 27, London: […] Duncan Davison & Co., […], page 416, column 1
Forms of bicorne
| plural | bicornes |
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Origin of bicorne
From French bicorne, from Latin bicornis. Doublet of bicorn.
Questions about bicorne
- What is bicorne the alternative form of?
- Bicorne is the alternative form of bicorn.
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