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title: "Tricorne"
description: "A tricorne is a hat with its brim turned up on three sides to form a triangle, worn widely in Europe in the eighteenth century."
type: Glossary
url: https://teazle.art/glossary/tricorne
published: 2026-10-14
updated: 2026-10-14
author: "The Teazle editors"
---

# Tricorne

*A tricorne is a hat with its brim turned up on three sides to form a triangle, worn widely in Europe in the eighteenth century.*

The tricorne came from cocking the wide brims of seventeenth-century hats. It was worn by men of all ranks, by soldiers, and sometimes by women for riding, before giving way to the two-cornered bicorne at the end of the century.


## Sources

1. [Tricorne (AAT 300046114)](http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300046114). Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus
2. [Tricorne (Q763457)](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q763457). Wikidata

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