tricolor

A flag having three colors.

The French flag.

Having three colors.

Three-colored; tricolored: in zoölogy correlated with bicolor and unicolor.

A flag composed of three colors in large masses equal or nearly equal, as the national flags of Italy and Mexico; especially, the flag of France adopted during the Revolution, consisting of three equal parts—blue next the mast, red at the fly, and white between, or, in heraldic language, palewise of three pieces, azure, argent, and gules. The red and blue represented the colors of the city of Paris.

The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution.

Hence, any three-colored flag.

Having three colors.

Alternative spelling of tricolour.

having or involving three colors