1. or tricolored, Having, using, or marked with three colors b of a dog; having a coat of black, tan, and white
2. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a tricolor or a nation whose flag is a tricolor; especially; French

ETYM French tricolore, drapeau tricolore a tricolored flag, from tricolore three-colored; tri (see Tri-) + Latin color color.
(French tricolore) Any flag or similar made up of three colors. The French national flag has three vertical bands of red, white, and blue. The red and blue were the colors of Paris and the white represented the royal house of Bourbon. The flag was first adopted on 17 July 1789, three days after the storming of the Bastille during the French Revolution. The Russian tricolor, introduced 1991, is red, white, and blue.
A flag having three colored stripes especially the French flag; SYN. tricolour.