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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
Word History
Etymology
French tricorne, from tricorne three-cornered, from Latin tricornis, from tri- + cornu horn — more at horn
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