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Example sentences for "tricoloured"

Lexicographically close words:
triclinic; triclinium; tricolor; tricolored; tricolour; tricuspid; tricycle; tricycles; tride; trident
  1. The Frenchman holds a tricoloured flag, and intimates that ‘Mon grande Maître bid-a you read dat, Monsieur!

  2. A huge green necktie is round his neck, and he wears a tricoloured scarf, in which are stuck a pistol and dagger; boots, with huge spurs, add to the dignity of the costume.

  3. So valuable for food and physics are our tricoloured Currants that the same argot may be justly paraphrased in their favour, with a well-merited eulogium of "Hurrah for the White, Red, Black!

  4. She had fixed a tricoloured cockade, which one of the National Guard had given her, upon her head.

  5. Behind his ally and publisher, Hone, is the portrait of the artist himself, with a tricoloured portfolio marked “Caricature.

  6. His left arm is in a tricoloured sling, while his right arm is being bled.

  7. Finally, on the 20th, a volley of a hundred cannon proclaimed that the tricoloured flag floated over every town in France.

  8. My mother took the old tricoloured cockade out of my father's hat, which had remained there since the Egyptian Campaign, and carried it to M.

  9. The Piedmontese fled to the sound of the cheering which greeted the tricoloured flag.

  10. Perhaps it was only a childish pride in his braided coat, his tricoloured cockade, and his big sword, which I could scarcely lift.

  11. Already he saw himself in a waistcoat with lapels and a tricoloured sash; and this itching, this hallucination, became so violent that he opened his mind to Dambreuse.

  12. On Saturday, on the top of a barricade in the Rue Lafayette, a young fellow wrapped in a tricoloured flag cried out to the National Guards: "Are you going to shoot your brothers?

  13. His judges sat upon the Bench in feathered hats; but the rough red cap and tricoloured cockade was the head-dress otherwise prevailing.

  14. Every member of the Convention wore a tricoloured scarf and carried a bouquet of flowers, fruits, and ears of corn.

  15. The bishop of Autun ascended the altar in pontifical robes; four hundred priests in white copes, and decorated with flowing tricoloured sashes, were posted at the four corners of the altar.

  16. It was the tricoloured ribbon that saved me.

  17. Whoever wished to pin on the tricoloured cockade had to hurry home first.

  18. Do you see," I cried, "this tricoloured cockade on my breast?

  19. She was wearing the tricoloured cockade[53] on her bosom, and, of her own accord, she took it off and pinned it on my breast.

  20. The crowd that was pressing round was kept back, and compelled to keep a line, by a tricoloured ribbon, held at short distances by gendarmes.

  21. Regard this tricoloured cockade on my breast!

  22. Ten minutes later the theatre was empty, and the next day the tricoloured cockade was to be seen on every breast.

  23. It was the tricoloured ribbon which saved me.

  24. An enormous monkey, his tail ornamented with tricoloured bows, unfolds a tricoloured scroll, which a lot of much smaller monkeys are reading.

  25. The magic lantern slide shows Napoleon coming over on a visit, with a tricoloured flag in one hand, the other leading the Empress Josephine, whose dress is semée with bees.

  26. On top of this pole is a hat adorned with a tricoloured sash.

  27. The chief delegate from the Estates General, in his quality of best man at this occasion, put a tricoloured sash across the shoulders of Mr. Paulus and conducted him to the Speaker's chair.

  28. They concocted a little tricoloured flag upon which they inscribed in black letters "The Crown Jewels": this flag they planted on the waggon and there the matter ended.

  29. The following day was market day, and the next business was to concoct a huge tricoloured flag to take the place of the white flag which was floating from the cathedral.

  30. At Nanteuil we again changed horses, and the tricoloured flag had its usual effect.

  31. Tricoloured banners were hung out; at the corner of the Palazzo Chigi, on the balcony of the Austrian Embassy, the two flags fraternally entwined.

  32. From the windmill, where we underwent our quarantine, I could see the tricoloured flag flying on the fortress of Figueras.

  33. As regards the facts," said he to Fourier, "which would seem to have occurred in your presence at the very gates of the city, with respect to the tricoloured cockades substituted for the cockade of Henry IV.

  34. At last on Monday it appeared that the Emperor of Russia had, on the first intelligence of the revolution in France, prohibited the tricoloured cockade and ordered all Russian subjects to quit France.

  35. At last, the tricoloured banner waving from the windows announced that the besiegers were victorious.

  36. On a second tricoloured flag, no inscription.

  37. Hence the liberty poles in the streets of the towns; the tricoloured cockades on the hats of the men; the hot blood between the anti-federal and the federalist parties of the State.

  38. Think of my presenting myself there with my tricoloured cockade --a Kentucky Jacobin!

  39. There they unfurled their chosen tricoloured banner, and swore once again to attain liberty or death.

  40. This necessitated a lengthy march along the banks ere a place suitable for the passage was found, and the presence of the small company with the tricoloured flag was discovered with amazement by the inhabitants.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tricoloured" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.