tricorn
IPA: trʌkɔrn
noun
- A three-sided hat with the brim turned up
- (mathematics) A three-horned fractal
adjective
- Having three horns or similar projections
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Examples of "tricorn" in Sentences
- It is worn with a tricorn and cloak.
- Some people say it's a tricorne, but I disagree.
- One of the early pubs in the Tricorn was The Bell.
- It has a lot of element 3, especially tricorne hats.
- The tricorn is still used as the official hat of the Registrar.
- One wing of it remains and is a public house called the Tricorn.
- Your typical pirate hat is called a "tricorn" or 3-cornered hat.
- A prominent sac bulges from under his barnacle encrusted tricorne.
- I was thinking of marketing tinfoil tricorn hats for the Tea Tards.
- An umpire and scorer wear three quarter length coats and tricorn hats.
- Some of the cleared area was used for the controversial Tricorn Centre.
- The tricorne later evolved into the bicorne and eventually the cocked hat.
- Today, Glen Beck's tea people enjoy wearing tricorn hats, but does anyone doubt that they would have been Tories during the American Revolution?
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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