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Tripolitanian en · ADJ

Etymology

From Tripolitania + -an.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Of, or relating to, Tripolitania.
   • Two of the locomotives remaining in Italy were sent across the Mediterranean to Tripoli, at the time a base for Rommel's armies in North Africa, although they could not run on the 3 ft. 1½ in.-gauge Tripolitanian railways. 1955 December, P. M. Kalla-Bishop, “Letters to the Editor: Italian-Built Garratts in Africa”, in Railway Magazine, page 873:

Tripolitanian en · NOUN

Etymology

From Tripolitania + -an.

Meanings

1. An inhabitant or native of Tripolitania.

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