Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having three corners or angles: as, a three-cornered hat.
- In botany, triquetrous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having three corners, or angles.
- adjective (Bot.) Having three prominent longitudinal angles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having three
corners ;triangular .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having three corners
- adjective involving a group or set of three
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Examples
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Nilly hurriedly buttoned all the shiny buttons on the uniform, buckled the belt with the shiny saber that only just barely dragged on the ground, and grabbed the strange, three-cornered hat that was sitting on the seat of the chair.
Bubble in the Bathtub Jo Nesbo 2011
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Most iconic is the mouthless bauta , typically worn with a three-cornered hat and black cloak, which turns every wearer into an impersonator of Casanova.
The Masked Charms of Venice's Carnival Francis X. Rocca 2011
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These things mean far more to mean than catchy campaign slogans or three-cornered hats ever could.
Heather Taylor-Miesle: Tea Partiers: Be Careful What You Wish For Heather Taylor-Miesle 2010
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Then they sat down to a three-cornered game of 'cut-throat,' -- a proceeding which did away with all casus belli for future hostilities, and permitted the victor to depart on a most important mission.
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It was a “three-cornered struggle” with Russian revolutionaries against counterrevolutionaries and national minorities resisting both.20 And this shorthand leaves out a fourth corner, that of the Black Army led by the Ukrainian anarchist Nestor Makhno.21 This stew of hostilities is typical of civil wars.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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Nilly hurriedly buttoned all the shiny buttons on the uniform, buckled the belt with the shiny saber that only just barely dragged on the ground, and grabbed the strange, three-cornered hat that was sitting on the seat of the chair.
Bubble in the Bathtub Jo Nesbo 2011
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The three-cornered needle jammed in the damp leather, and he suspended work for the moment.
SIWASH 2010
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Dick palmed a three-cornered sail needle through a set of broken pack straps, his good nature in nowise disturbed by the feminine cataclysm which was threatening to burst in the storm-beaten tent.
SIWASH 2010
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Then they sat down to a three-cornered game of 'cut-throat,' -- a proceeding which did away with all casus belli for future hostilities, and permitted the victor to depart on a most important mission.
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And if you're trying to guess who comes out ahead in this three-cornered game of political chess—congressional Republicans, congressional Democrats or the president—it probably will be the president.
Hope Fades for Much Good to Come From Deficit Fight Gerald F. Seib 2011
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