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Definition of: tricorn
(trī′kôrn) noun
A hat with the brim turned up on three sides, worn during the 17th and 18th centuries by both men and women: used improperly in the form tricorne for the two–cornered hat of the French gendarmes. See BICORN.
—adjective Three–horned; three–pronged; having three hornlike processes. [<F tricorne <L tricornis three–horned <tri- three + cornu a horn]
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