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  • noun Alternative spelling of tricorn.
  • adverb Alternative spelling of tricorn.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun cocked hat with the brim turned up to form three points

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Examples

  • Against all of this the tricorne was a rebellion, for such a hat could not have been purchased for less than ten shillings.

    The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008

  • Against all of this the tricorne was a rebellion, for such a hat could not have been purchased for less than ten shillings.

    The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008

  • Against all of this the tricorne was a rebellion, for such a hat could not have been purchased for less than ten shillings.

    The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008

  • A tricorne stolen from a transvestite buccaneer at SeaWorld.

    Meme Mangling marshallpayne1 2010

  • Argh, I murmured at him, his one good eye rolling in a suffering sort of tolerance beneath his tricorne hat.

    Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011

  • Argh, I murmured at him, his one good eye rolling in a suffering sort of tolerance beneath his tricorne hat.

    Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011

  • Let's get this straight: A fully grown man dons pantaloons and a tricorne hat and he's a "concerned American" but cameras spot ONE scraggly-looking dude with dreads and suddenly #OWS is a mob?

    HUFFPOST HILL - CBO Shocker: American Jobs Act *Won't* Ruthlessly Exterminate Small Woodland Creatures Eliot Nelson 2011

  • The great general stands in the exact center of the print, his associates arrayed around him, his tricorne hat on a stout table by his side.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • The great general stands in the exact center of the print, his associates arrayed around him, his tricorne hat on a stout table by his side.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • A girl in a white chador, a man laughing, a girl with a baby, a man with a tricorne hat.

    The Other Side of Dark Sarah Smith 2010

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