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Three-cornered   /θri-kˈɔrnərd/   Listen
adjective
Three-cornered  adj.  
1.
Having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat.
2.
(Bot.) Having three prominent longitudinal angles; as, a three-cornered stem.





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"Three-cornered" Quotes from Famous Books



... porcelain faces and three-cornered head-dresses, stepped forward and led Griselda into a small ante-room, where lay waiting for her the most magnificent dress you ever saw. But how do you think they dressed her? It was all by nodding. They nodded to the blue and silver embroidered jacket, and in a moment it had ...
— The Cuckoo Clock • Mrs. Molesworth
... three-cornered affair, Which I heard was a racer from Fingal, And hearing him roaring, and whistling an air, I said, ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 103, Sep. 24, 1892 • Various
... not gone far with it when he came upon a small three-cornered slip of paper, with a memorandum penciled upon it. It lay in the midst of a ...
— A Captain in the Ranks - A Romance of Affairs • George Cary Eggleston
... primrose ring is, perhaps, rather a crazy-quilt affair, having to be patched out of the squares and three-cornered bits of Fancy which the children remembered to bring back with them. I have tried to piece them together into a fairly substantial pattern; but, of course, it can be easily ripped out and raveled into nothing. So I beg of you, on the children's account, to handle it gently, for they believe ...
— The Primrose Ring • Ruth Sawyer
... gaillard-la, only the tiptop is good enough. So, if you grace our poor old church with your presence you will be shown to your bench by a very splendid gentleman in black, in knee-breeches, with silver chains, with a three-cornered hat, who strikes with his stick three times as he seats you. ...
— In and Out of Three Normady Inns • Anna Bowman Dodd


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