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trucial en · ADJ

Etymology

From truce + -al.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of or pertaining to a truce; specifically, to the truce obtaining between Britain and various Arab sheikdoms of the Oman peninsula.
    • Without staking an explicitly colonial claim to Iraq, Sir Henry asserted […] in essence, the integration of Mesopotamia into Britain's trucial system in the Persian Gulf. 2015, Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans, Penguin, published 2016, page 283:

Deriveds

Trucial Coast · Trucial States · Trucial · Trucial State · Trucial Oman

Translations (2)

es de tregua (Translations) · es tregual (Translations)