tricolored
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- adjective
- /ˈtraɪˌkoʊlərd/
- US
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tricolor
- The artist painted a tricolored design on the canvas, blending shades of blue, yellow, and red beautifully.
- tricolored herons
Examples
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"This is in no way racist, Sarah," he'd responded, on the defensive, "not with today's tricolored bank employees."
Fiction book (1994) -
A friend dispatched a bouquet of purple and yellow flowers surrounded by greenery—the precise shades of my tricolored bruises.
Academic text (1998) -
There is a, uh, tricolor sage right there and thyme.
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I clearly remember seeing a tricolored blackbird, though for years people told me it was a red-winged blackbird.
Fiction book (2002) -
Most noticeably, where the mask fibers are concerned, while imported inks are used, the rigid tricolored code of black, red, and yellow (as recorded by Griaule) has been maintained.
Academic text (2005) -
The walls were painted, the floors carpeted, the skylights covered with matching fabric, and the central ceiling made into a dynamic starburst of tricolored panels of glass called Afro Kaleidoscope.
Academic text (2003) -
He admired the tricolored flag waving in the breeze, its red, white, and blue stripes representing unity.
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Children were excited to see the tricolored balloons at the party, each one filled with vibrant colors of green, orange, and purple.
Synonyms
Made of three colors
Having three different colors, like a flag or a bird
Having three colors, for example in vision or printing
Using three different colors or tones in a design
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tricolored starts with tri-, a part that means 'three', and ends with the word 'color', so picture a flag with three colored bands. You can see tri- in tricycle and trio, which both show 'three', so tricolored simply means 'having three colors'.