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Triplice|ˈtriplitʃe|
Also with lower-case initial.
[a. It. triplice triple; cf. triplex a. (n.).]
The Triple Alliance (see triple a. 5) of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy, formed in 1882 against Russia and France. Also transf.
1896Daily News 15 Dec. 5/3 The same demand has been made to the other members of the Triplice. 1897Ibid. 6 Sept. 5/2 The Triplice desires peace at any cost. 1901Speaker 20 Apr. 74/2 It would be misleading to call the Triplice a League of peace. 1908Daily Chron. 30 July 3/6 A suggestion for a new alliance, a triplice of Britain, France, and Germany, in the interests of peace, was made by Mr. Prust, of Launceston. 1911Djavid Bey Let. 28 Oct. in R. S. Churchill Winston S. Churchill (1969) II. Compan. ii. xvii. 1368 The attack of one of the triple alliance powers on our territory has turned the public opinion greatly against the triplice. 1947Hist. of The Times III. x. 250 The conclusion that the Triplice..was weak as an Alliance, was forced to the forefront of Wallace's mind. 1979E. Ingram Beginning of Great Game ix. 263 The tsar forestalled Palmerston's attempt to erect a near-eastern triplice [of Britain, Austria and France].
Hence ˈTriplicist, a supporter of the Triplice; also attrib. or as adj.
1923J. Buchan Nations of To-day: Italy 172 It was able to give a decidedly ‘Triplicist’ aspect to the enterprise. 1924Glasgow Herald 15 Jan. 7 It is all to the credit of the Triplicists..and very little to that of the Allies. |