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Tripolitan meaning
Of or pertaining to Tripoli or its inhabitants.
Example sentences (3)
While Lieutenant Decatur was locked in hand-to-hand combat with the Tripolitan commander, another Tripolitan sailor swung his saber at him.
After several hours aground and Tripolitan gun boats firing upon the Philadelphia, though none ever struck the Philadelphia, Captain Bainbridge made the decision to surrender.
Fremont-Barnes, Gregory The Wars of the Barbary States, London: Osprey, 2006 page 14. : July The Tripolitan warship Tripolino takes the American merchantman Catherine and enslaves the crew.