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tripoline, a. (and n.)
[In sense 1, f. Tripoli, the name of a city and port in North Africa (see also tripoli): see -ine2, -ine4]
1. Of or pertaining to tripoli or rotten stone.
1759Da Costa in Phil. Trans. LI. 193 The layers of fossil wood in this mountain, having been saturated with the Tripoline particles,..thereby composed a stone.
2. (With capital initial.) Of or pertaining to Tripoli, now the capital of Libya. Also as n., a native or inhabitant of Tripoli. Cf. next.
1819A. Salamé Narr. Exped. Algiers 6 We found she was a Tripoline polacca, (I am sorry that she was not an Algerine). 1843Penny Cycl. XXV. 256/1 The Tripoline cruisers seldom allowed a ship at sea to escape them if they thought they could make a prize of her with impunity. Ibid. In 1832, Yussuf, the last basha of the Caramanli family,..having lost the affection of the Tripolines, after a reign of forty years,..was obliged to abdicate. 1909[see Tripolitan a.]. |