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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tricolor \Tri"col`or\, n. [F. tricolore, drapeau tricolore a
     tricolored flag, fr. tricolore three-colored; tri (see
     {Tri-}) + L. color color.] [Written also {tricolour}.]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white,
        and red, adopted at the first revolution.


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     2. Hence, any three-colored flag.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  tricolor
       adj : having or involving three colors; "trichromatic vision"; "a
             trichromatic printing process"; "trichromatic staining
             is the staining of tissue samples differentially in
             three colors"; "tricolor plumage"; "a tricolor process
             in photography" [syn: {trichromatic}, {trichrome}]
       n : a flag having three colored stripes (especially the French
           flag) [syn: {tricolour}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  74 Moby Thesaurus words for "tricolor":
     Dannebrog, Jolly Roger, Old Glory, Star-Spangled Banner,
     Stars and Stripes, Union Flag, Union Jack, and blue, banderole,
     banner, banneret, bicolor, bicolored, black flag, blue ensign,
     bunting, burgee, coachwhip, colorful, colors, colory, crazy,
     daedal, dichromatic, divers-colored, ensign, flag, gonfalon,
     gonfanon, guidon, harlequin, house flag, jack, kaleidoscopic,
     long pennant, many-colored, medley, merchant flag, motley,
     multicolor, multicolored, multicolorous, national flag, oriflamme,
     parti-color, parti-colored, pennant, pennon, pennoncel,
     polychromatic, polychrome, polychromic, prismal, red, red ensign,
     royal standard, shot, shot through, signal flag, spectral,
     standard, streamer, swallowtail, thunder and lightning,
     trichromatic, trichromic, tricolored, two-tone, varicolored,
     variegated, versicolor, versicolored, vexillum, white
  
  

















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