trucial

See also: 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, published 2016, page 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.

Derived terms

• Trucial
• Trucial Coast
• Trucial Oman
• Trucial State
• Trucial States

 

Anagrams

• curtail, urtical