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or tricorn
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Recent Examples of tricorne
Soldiers from the Old Guard, wearing tricorne hats and bright-red uniforms, marched past, amid a flourish of fifes and drums.
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Seth Harp,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
Take out yer triangular hat (a tricorn), eye patch, brass earrings, shoulder parrot, sword and scabbard, hook for a hand, and peg for a leg.
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Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Sep. 2025
Many delegations treat the convention like senior week and wear matching outfits—Hawaii’s were obviously the best, but the Wisconsin delegates had their traditional postmodern tricornes shaped like cheese.
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Yiyun Li,
Harper's Magazine,
23 Sep. 2024
Johnson made this conversation explicit by name-checking or picturing Evans, Lee Friedlander, Duane Michals, and Richard Avedon—the latter pops up here in a picture on a book cover, which Johnson has topped with a pirate’s tricorne hat.
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Vince Aletti,
The New Yorker,
22 July 2022
Jamie looks dapper and colonial, walking through Edinburgh on his way to work, tricorne and all.
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Roxane Gay,
Glamour,
22 Oct. 2017
Seth Harp,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
Take out yer triangular hat (a tricorn), eye patch, brass earrings, shoulder parrot, sword and scabbard, hook for a hand, and peg for a leg.
—
Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Sep. 2025
Many delegations treat the convention like senior week and wear matching outfits—Hawaii’s were obviously the best, but the Wisconsin delegates had their traditional postmodern tricornes shaped like cheese.
—
Yiyun Li,
Harper's Magazine,
23 Sep. 2024
Johnson made this conversation explicit by name-checking or picturing Evans, Lee Friedlander, Duane Michals, and Richard Avedon—the latter pops up here in a picture on a book cover, which Johnson has topped with a pirate’s tricorne hat.
—
Vince Aletti,
The New Yorker,
22 July 2022
Jamie looks dapper and colonial, walking through Edinburgh on his way to work, tricorne and all.
—
Roxane Gay,
Glamour,
22 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tricorne
Noun
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The exhibit featured photos of Oloyede commanding Florida A&M’s band, along with her uniform jacket and a tall major shako (military-style) hat.
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Sutton Foster crochets Hugh Jackman a marching-band shako for the occasion.
Noun
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Madonna attended the 57th Grammy Awards in 2015 in a lacy ensemble paired with black thigh-high boots and a black beret with an attached mesh veil.
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Many French fans sported blue jerseys and commemorative berets featuring the 2026 World Cup trophy.
Noun
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The caskets of his family members sat beneath Khamenei’s, which had his black turban atop it, identifying him as a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad.
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Television footage showed his coffin draped with the Iranian flag and topped with his black turban.
Noun
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Sombrero flick The sombrero flick means different things to different people.
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Quiroz recently began wearing a sombrero.
Noun
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The dining room table, where the sisters wrote, is strewn with manuscripts, quill pens and tea cups; a bonnet and shawl bedeck a chair in the small kitchen.
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Consider using a satin or silk bonnet and pillowcase to reduce friction, prevent breakage, and preserve your hairstyle while sleeping.
Noun
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Cardinals from Brunei and the Philippines could not travel and will receive their ring and biretta from a papal delegate.
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Among those receiving the cardinals’ biretta — a crimson-red square cap with three ridges — was his point man for helping Rome’s homeless and poor.
Noun
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Then there is Toby, the fictional, fez-donning cartoon cat that Baseman calls his alter ego.
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The other, a raggedy, bearded civilian from his country’s military reserve, is less enthused, and often strips off his service greens and his Ottoman-style fez to smoke cigarettes and lounge in the sun.
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De Gaulle returned to Paris, walked the Champs-Élysées in his stiff kepi.
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De Gaulle returned to Paris, walked the Champs-Élysées in his stiff kepi.
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“Tricorne.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tricorne. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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