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tricorn

[ UK /tɹˈa‍ɪkɔːn/ ]
NOUN
  1. cocked hat with the brim turned up to form three points

How To Use tricorn In A Sentence

  • 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. Slightly smeary article about ron paul
  • A band of protesters in colonial gear wended through the crowd, led by a bell ringer in a tricorn hat calling for revolution.
  • He stood by the fireplace in a worn uniform, his tricorn under his arm, tapping his fingers on the mantel.
  • 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
  • The Tricorn is also one of the best examples of the architectural megastructure (in Britain at least), a concept that was unfashionable practically as soon as it was mooted.
  • I was thinking of marketing tinfoil tricorn hats for the Tea Tards. Think Progress » Obama bumper sticker fuels violent political road rage in Tennessee.
  • Despite Mudge's insistence, however, he categorically refused to don the orange tricornered cap. A Corridor in the Asylum
  • Wearing a tricorn hat, waistcoat, breeches and other colonial-era clothes, the old Southern Marylander's 7-foot, 3-inch bronze likeness peers down at lawmakers and legislative aides rushing through a restricted-access corridor outside the Senate chamber. Harriet Tubman vs. John Hanson: Statuary Hall smackdown
  • Officers' hats seem at first to have been a tricorne - or three-cornered - hat which was universal wear for gentlemen in the 1600s and beyond.
  • Eccentric chic is apparently all very now: think Oxford beanies, tricorn hats, feather boas and you get some idea of the serious lack of taste required.
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