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单词 tripoline
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tripolineadj.n.

Etymology: In sense 1, < Tripoli, the name of a city and port in North Africa (see also tripoli n.): see -ine suffix2, -ine suffix4.
1. Of or pertaining to tripoli or rotten stone.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > mineral material > [adjective] > relating to tripoli
tripoline1760
1760 E. M. da Costa in Philos. Trans. 1759 (Royal Soc.) 51 193 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. Tripolitan adj.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [adjective] > in North Africa > present
Tripolitan1783
tripoline1819
Tunisine1843
Cairene1851
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of North Africa > native or inhabitant of Libya > [noun] > part of
Tripolitan1783
tripoline1819
Tripolitanian1942
1819 A. Salamé Narr. Exped. Algiers 6 We found she was a Tripoline polacca, (I am sorry that she was not an Algerine).
1843 Penny 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.
1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. 256/1 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 G. W. Furlong Gateway to Sahara i. 8 ‘Tripolitans’ signifies the people of the territory, ‘Tripoline’ a dweller in the town of Tripoli.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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