Additional Meanings
Vexillologists also occasionally describe flags of which the main element is three stripes as being "based on a tricolour (or triband) design". Flags such as the flag of the Bahamas and the Palestinian flag fall into this category.
Some vexillologists take the meaning of the term at its barest, and simply use it to describe any flag containing just three colours, irrespective of the design. Thus, the flags of the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom might be described as tricolours, while the flag of India (which has a blue charge in the centre) would not.
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