Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hat having the brim turned up on three sides.
- adjective Having three corners, horns, or projections.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having three horns or horn-like processes.
- noun A hat with three points or horns; a cocked hat having the brim folded upward against the crown on three sides, producing three angles; hence, by popular misapplication, the hat worn by the French gendarmes, which has only two points: usually written as French, tricorne. See cut 13 under hat.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A three-sided
hat with thebrim turned up - noun mathematics A three-horned
fractal - adjective Having three
horns or similarprojections
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun cocked hat with the brim turned up to form three points
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The rally intends to call “the GOP back to its roots,” if by “roots,” you mean lots of people in tricorn hats, whose idea of a good time is batting around their favorite economists from the Austrian School.
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The rally intends to call “the GOP back to its roots,” if by “roots,” you mean lots of people in tricorn hats, whose idea of a good time is batting around their favorite economists from the Austrian School.
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The woman sitting next to Miss Temple, who had preceded her into the coach, wore a kind of tricorn hat rakishly pinned to her hair, and a thin band of cloth tied over her eyes, quite like a pirate.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters Dahlquist, Gordon 2006
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The woman sitting next to Miss Temple, who had preceded her into the coach, wore a kind of tricorn hat rakishly pinned to her hair, and a thin band of cloth tied over her eyes, quite like a pirate.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters Dahlquist, Gordon 2006
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Your typical pirate hat is called a "tricorn" or 3-cornered hat.
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April 26th, 2010 at 3: 35 pm tombaker says: we should chip in and get freeman a tricorn (made of organic materials, of course) so he can go get down with his teabagger soulmates, and help them “take back” america.
Think Progress » Beck calls Bush a ‘progressive,’ says Obama is doing ‘exactly’ the same thing. 2010
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But after years of armed struggle against New York's royal governors and sheriffs over the New Hampshire Grants, 37-year-old Ethan Allen—tall, muscular and "a commanding figure in his forest green greatcoat and sheared beaver tricorn hat"—and his Green Mountain Boys were ready to fight for independence.
Founding Father (Of Vermont) Robert K. Landers 2011
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I was thinking of marketing tinfoil tricorn hats for the Tea Tards.
Think Progress » Obama bumper sticker fuels violent political road rage in Tennessee. 2010
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Wearing his Virginia militia uniform—red coat with white lace cuffs, red vest and breeches, black boots, a black tricorn—on April 2 Washington climbed atop a tall horse and rode out at the head of a corps of men wearing cloth coats, breeches, and hunting shirts.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Today, Glen Beck's tea people enjoy wearing tricorn hats, but does anyone doubt that they would have been Tories during the American Revolution?
sionnach commented on the word tricorn
A trifecta of unicorns
November 16, 2007
ruzuzu commented on the word tricorn
“A hat with three points or horns; a cocked hat having the brim folded upward against the crown on three sides, producing three angles; hence, by popular misapplication, the hat worn by the French gendarmes, which has only two points: usually written as French, tricorne. See cut 13 under hat.”
— from The Century Dictionary
October 29, 2018