n. A flag with three stripes either vertical or horizontal all of equal size, and of a different colour.
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n. a flag having three colored stripes (especially the French flag)
Word Usage
"But Romance, notwithstanding, has not yet altogether deserted the Paris that was her loyal sweetheart in the days when the tricolour was a prouder flag, its subjects a prouder people."