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tricolours

tricolours is the plural of tricolour.

Meaning of tricolour

Noun

tricolour (plural tricolours)

  1. (UK) A flag consisting of three stripes that are either vertical or horizontal, all of equal size, and each of a different colour.
    • Tricolours are seen in the national flags of over twenty countries, including Belgium, France, India, Italy, Russia, The Netherlands and Ireland.
  2. (UK, uncommon) Anything which is composed of three colours.
    • […] to the Indian red. The black, to complete the racial tricolor, was yet to come. The white population settled, as the more advanced Indian groups had, in areas having the most comfortable temperatures.1946, Russell Humke Fitzgibbon, Flaud C. Wooton, Flaud Conaroe Wooton, Latin America: Past and Present, page 38

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Questions about tricolours

What is tricolours the plural of?
Tricolours is the plural of tricolour.

Words near tricolours in the dictionary

  1. tricolour sharkminnow
  2. tricolour sharkminnows
  3. tricolour sharks
  4. tricoloured
  5. tricolourous
  6. tricolours
  7. tricolpate
  8. tricolpates
  9. tricolporate
  10. tricolporoidate
  11. tricolumnar

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