tricorne
- n cocked hat with the brim turned up to form three points
- The plume on the General's tricorne hat looked like a Christmas tree.
- Similarly moved, the Herald Tribune: "She wore a brown coat with a mink collar which she held up around her face continuously, and a small brown hat, almost tricorne in shape .
- Wearing a new copy of her old badge of office, a small black satin tricorne hat, Madam Perkins, who has never reconciled her views of fashion with those of the style experts .