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tricolour, tricolor, a. and n.|ˈtraɪˌkʌlə(r), ˈtrɪkələ(r)|
[ad. late L. tricolor, -ōrem adj. (Priscian c 500), and F. tricolore adj. (often in phr. drapeau tricolore: see A. 2, B. 2).]
A. adj. Having three colours; three-coloured.
1. Nat. Hist., esp. in reference to a black, white, and tan dog.
1866Treas. Bot., Tricolor, consisting of three colours. 1900in B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms. 1922R. Leighton Compl. Bk. Dog viii. 113 At Cruft's in 1913 an especially nice tricolour puppy named Jason was placed high above Lerwick Jarl. 1971F. Hamilton World Encycl. Dogs 103 The coat is smooth and short and the colors are tricolor, black, tan and white.
2. Of a flag, cockade, etc.; esp. of the national flags of France, Italy, and Mexico: see B. 2.
1815Southey in Q. Rev. July 482 (tr. Napoleon) Tear down those colours which the nation has proscribed; mount the tri⁓colour cockade. 1832tr. Sismondi's Ital. Rep. xvi. 362 The French general Baraguai d'Hilliers entered the city.. and planted..the tricolour banner on St. Mark. 1860W. G. Clark in Vac. Tour. 56 [They] made haste to take all the tricolor flags from their windows. 1886Pall Mall G. 3 July 8/2 Many..supporters had also donned tricolour rosettes.
3. a. Employing or pertaining to the use of the three primary colours. Cf. three-colour a.
1898A. C. Austin (title) Practical half-tone and tri⁓color engraving. 1909Chambers's Jrnl. 27 Mar. 268/1 A remarkable new development..promises to revolutionise the art of printing in photogravure. The process is three-colour; and..the results..are far in advance of anything that has yet been attempted in tricolour printing. 1937J. S. Mertle Photolithography & Offset Printing 101 Three-color photography proper is based on the photographic separation of the colored original into three primary color-record (separation) negatives, which are obtained by exposing three separate color-sensitive plates through what are termed ‘tri-color’ filters. Ibid. 103 Tri-color images. 1968Gloss. Terms Offset Lithogr. Printing (B.S.I.) 17 Tricolour filter, a colour filter that transmits a primary band of the spectrum, i.e., red, green or blue.
b. gen. Three-coloured.
1979Washington Post 20 Oct. f7/2 Even the large sculptures are hard to find among the visual chaos—amid blaring tricolor trashcans, telephone booths, [etc.]. 1983Christian Sci. Monitor 14 Nov. b12/1 Almost anything Chinese— whether Tang Dynasty tricolor jars, Ming molded gourds, or cheap jade trinkets—can be bought in Hong Kong.
B. n. (Not so used in French.)
1. Gardening (in form tricolor). Short for Amarantus tricolor, a species of amaranth from China, cultivated for its brightly coloured leaves, compounded of green, yellow, and red.
1786Abercrombie Gard. Assist. 239 Fine balsams, cockscombs, tricolors, etc.
2. a. A tricolour flag, cockade, etc.; esp. the national flag of France adopted at the Revolution, consisting of equal vertical stripes of blue, white, and red.
1797Political Censor Mar. 84 To strut and hector over the poor fallen Tricolor, and to call on your readers to ‘unite under their own flag’..entitles you to but very little praise. 1798Scott War-song viii, If ever breath of British gale Shall fan the tri-color [rime shore]. 1815Byron On the Star of ‘the Legion of Honour’ iv, A rainbow..Of three bright colours. Note, The tri-colour. 1832Marryat N. Forster xli, The French tricolour hardly had time to blow clear. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. v. v, Red and Blue, our old Paris colours: these, once based on a ground of constitutional White, are the famed Tricolor,—which (if Prophecy err not) ‘will go round the world’. 1847Disraeli Tancred iv. ii, The flag of England has beaten even the tricolour. 1855W. Morris in Mackail Life (1899) I. 82 The Russian tricolour, horizontal stripes of blue, red, and white. 1870Daily News 1 Dec., An unpretending house..has a sentry at the gate, and a North German tricolour displayed above the garden wall.
b. The green, white, and orange Irish Republican flag.
1969Listener 28 Aug. 268/2 The tricolour had been raised in Bogside once before. 1977Belfast Tel. 22 Feb. 5/5 No Irish tricolours were displayed.
3. A black, white, and tan dog.
1905J. Watson Dog Bk. lxvi. 724 The tricolour has been neglected in the fashion for black and tans. 1971F. Hamilton World Encycl. Dogs 97 Two tricolors can produce a pure golden-sable.
4. A combination of the three primary colours.
1978SLR Camera Dec. 88/3 In theory, the yellow, magenta-red, and cyan-blue tricolour forming the image of the slide should each perfectly reflect two-thirds of the spectrum of white light. |