Tricolore

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The term tricolore can refer to:

• Tricolore, a singing group taking part in the BBC's Eurovision Song Contest Making Your Mind Up programme in 2005.
• Tricolore, a ballet by Peter Martins, Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux and Jerome Robbins
• Adidas Tricolore, the football (soccer ball) of the 1998 World Cup
• the Flag of The Netherlands (in Dutch: de driekleur) the oldest national tricolor still in use.
• the Flag of France (in French, le drapeau tricolore or, rarely, le tricolore)
• the Flag of Italy (in Italian: il tricolore)
• the Flag of Romania (in Romanian: tricolorul)
• the Flag of Russia (in Russian: триколор)
• the Flag of Costa Rica (in Spanish: la tricolor)
• a tricolour banner or flag which has three colours, usually in approximately equal size (horizontally or vertically).
• the Costa Rica national football team, known within the country as La Tricolor.

Le Tricolore is also one of the French nicknames of the Montreal Canadiens hockey team.