What does tri-coloured mean?

tri-coloured

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.50 in modern English

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"He took notice of the inſubordination of the troops, and mentioned particularly the ſecond battalion of the regiment of Beauce, which had refuſed to quit the tri-coloured ribband which M. de Rochambeau inſiſted ſhould not be worn."
"There is not the ſmalleſt doubt but this day the tri-coloured flag is floating[…]"
"“The big picture is that the bats in Ontario, little brown bats, tri-coloured, small-footed and northern long-eared bats, they’ve experienced a 95- to 100-per-cent collapse,” Hooton said."

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