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tricolore can refer to:
- Tricolore, a singing group taking part in the BBC's Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition...
Making Your Mind Up programme in 2005
- Peter Martins, Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux and Jerome Robbins' 1978 Tricolore (ballet)
Tricolore is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins, Peter Martins and Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, conceived and supervised by City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine, to music by Georges Auric, commissioned by the company in 1978...
- Adidas Tricolore, the football (soccer ball) of the 1998 World Cup
- the Flag of The Netherlands
The flag of the Netherlands is a horizontal tricolour of red, white, and blue. Introduced in 1572, it is one of the first tricolours and the oldest tricolour still in use today. Since 1937, the flag has officially been the national flag of the Netherlands and of the Kingdom of the...
(in DutchDutch is a West Germanic language spoken by over 22 million people as a native language, and over 5 million people as a second language.
"1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." Outside the European Union the number of second language...
: de driekleur) the oldest national tricolor still in use
- the Flag of France
The national flag of France is a tricolour featuring three vertical bands coloured blue , white, and red...
(in FrenchFrench is a Romance language globally spoken by about 65 million people as a first language , by 50 million as a second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired foreign language, with significant speakers in 57 countries. Most native speakers of the language live in France,...
, le drapeau tricolore or, rarely, le tricolore)
- the Flag of Ireland
The national flag of Ireland is a vertical tricolour of green , white, and orange. It is also known as the Irish tricolour. The flag proportion is 1:2...
(the Irish tricolour)
- the Flag of Italy
The flag of Italy is a tricolour featuring three equally sized vertical pales of green, white and red, with the green at the hoist side...
(in ItalianItalian is a Romance language spoken by about 60 million people in Italy, and by a total of around 70 million in the world. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four official languages. It is also the official language of San Marino, as well as the primary language of Vatican City...
: il tricolore)
- the Flag of Romania
The national flag of Romania is a tricolor with vertical stripes: beginning from the flagpole, blue, yellow and red. It has a width-length ratio of 2:3....
(in RomanianRomanian or Daco-Romanian is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova. It has official status in Romania, Republic of Moldova, and the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina in Serbia...
: tricolorul)
- the Flag of Russia
The flag of Russia , or officially, the State Flag of the Russian Federation is a tricolour of three equal horizontal fields, white on the top, blue in the middle and red on the bottom. The flag was first used as an ensign for merchant and war ships and only became official in 1896...
(in RussianRussian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe...
: триколор)
- the Flag of Costa Rica
The flag of Costa Rica was officially adopted on November 27, 1906. However, the blue, white and red horizontal design was created and used since 1848 when Costa Rica left the Federal Republic of Central America and declared itself a Sovereign Republic. Pacífica Fernández, wife of the president,...
(in SpanishSpanish or Castilian is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that originated in northern Spain and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile, evolving into the principal language of government and trade in the Iberian peninsula...
: la tricolor)
- a tricolour
A tricolour or tricolor is a flag or banner more-or-less equally divided into three bands of differing colors...
bannerA banner is a flag or other piece of cloth bearing a symbol, logo, slogan or other message. Banner-making is an ancient craft.The word derives from late Latin bandum, a cloth out of which a flag is made...
or flagA flag is a piece of fabric, often flown from a pole or mast, generally used symbolically for signaling or identification. It is most commonly used to symbolize a country...
which has three colours, usually in approximately equal size (horizontally or vertically)
- the Costa Rica national football team
The Costa Rica national football team, nicknamed La Sele, is the national team of Costa Rica and is controlled by the Federación Costarricense de Fútbol...
, known within the country as La Tricolor
- an Italian salad often containing endive
Endive , Cichorium endivia is a leaf vegetable belonging to the daisy family. Endive can be cooked or used raw in salads.Endive is also a common name for some types of chicory . There is considerable confusion between Cichorium endivia and Cichorium intybus...
lettuce and strips of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
- Le Tricolore is also one of the French nickname
A nickname is a descriptive name given in place of or in addition to the official name of a person, place or thing. It can also be the familiar or truncated form of the proper name, which may sometimes be used simply for convenience A nickname (also spelled "nick name") is a descriptive name...
s of the Montreal CanadiensThe Montreal Canadiens are a professional ice hockey team based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The team is a member of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...
hockey team