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- noun The two-cornered hat worn by Napoleon Bonaparte.
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- noun a cocked hat with the brim turned up to form two points
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Examples
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In the mirror she was wearing a muddy bicorne hat.
The French Revolution Brian Mihok 2011
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In honor of the emperor, he makes a chocolate in the shape of his bicorne hat, filled with marzipan, cherry liquor and bitter banana cream.
Turning Chocolate on Its Head Paul Ames 2011
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A small pair of gold-rimmed half-spectacles, a neat hair-ribbon and a bicorne of blue felt completed the picture.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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Does he temporarily conceal his – undoubtedly genetically acquired – bicorne nature with a rainbow mitre?
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I agree, the officer in the bicorne looks a real Tartar!
Baden Jagers 1806 Der Alte Fritz 2008
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It was not an engineering school, but a military school–rigid rules, tight-fitting blue uniforms, swords, the traditional bicorne for parade-ground ceremonies–and devoted to the study of pure science.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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It was not an engineering school, but a military school–rigid rules, tight-fitting blue uniforms, swords, the traditional bicorne for parade-ground ceremonies–and devoted to the study of pure science.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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Dodd and Pendleton were the piquets on the Quinta's driveway and when they saluted him Christopher just touched the ivory heel of his riding crop to one of the tasselled peaks of his bicorne hat.
Sharpe's Havoc Cornwell, Bernard 2003
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A Lieutenant Colonel in a black bicorne hat walked up the beach.
Sharpe's Prey Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2001
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Bonaparte's older brother Giuseppe tipped his bicorne hat and bowed from the waist.
Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe Sandra Gulland 2000
erose commented on the word bicorne
also a fictional beast that was said to have fed on patient husbands, and was therefore very fat.
see: chichevache
July 3, 2009