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triple crown

The correct spelling is triple crown.

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noun

Say it like: Tri-ple- cr-own

The correct spelling is triple crown. The three-tiered tiara formerly worn by Popes. For example: "1997: The last in this series of deaths was that of Pope Eugenius’s successor Anastasius IV, who was succeeded by a man of a very different calibre: Adrian (or Hadrian) IV, the only Englishman ever to wear the Triple Crown. — John Julius Norwich, A Short History of Byzantium (Penguin 1998, p. 281)"

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1997: The last in this series of deaths was that of Pope Eugenius’s successor Anastasius IV, who was succeeded by a man of a very different calibre: Adrian (or Hadrian) IV, the only Englishman ever to wear the Triple Crown. — John Julius Norwich, A Short History of Byzantium (Penguin 1998, p. 281)

Definition

noun

  1. 1.The three-tiered tiara formerly worn by Popes.
  2. 2.An award representing victory in three events, especially in horse-racing.

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