trucial

English

Etymology

From truce +‎ -al.

Adjective

trucial (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to a truce; specifically, to the truce obtaining between Britain and various Arab sheikdoms of the Oman peninsula.
    • 2015, Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans, Penguin 2016, p. 283:
      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.

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