trucial
English
Etymology
Adjective
trucial (not comparable)
- 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.
- 2015, Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans, Penguin 2016, p. 283: