tricolor flag
France's national standard
A tricolor flag has three bands of different colors, typically arranged in vertical or horizontal stripes.
The French flag—blue, white, and red—is the archetypal tricolor, inspiring similar designs worldwide.
Many national flags follow this pattern: the Italian tricolor, the Irish tricolor.
The term often appears shortened to simply tricolor.
- cockadeRibbon badge for hats
- bluePrimary color; also sad
- BelgiumWestern European constitutional monarchy
- French RevolutionLate-1700s republican upheaval
- FranceWestern European republic
Colombia · green · Irish nationalism · civil war · liberty · unity · red · sovereignty · German reunification · Italy · India · white · Mexico · vertical stripes · stripe · red white and blue · Netherlands · Ireland
- French RevolutionBastille, guillotine, Robespierre, French Revolution, Marie Antoinette
- BelgiumBrussels, Belgium, Flanders, Antwerp, Bruges
- Irish HistoryGreat Famine, Easter Rising, Irish nationalism, Irish War of Independence, Irish Civil War
- Italian HistoryRome, Venice, Florence, Naples, Sicily
- AlgeriaAlgiers, Constantine, dinar, Berber, Medea
- European Symbolsfleur-de-lis, Celtic cross, double-headed eagle, imperial eagle, shamrock