Meanings
adjectiveTripolitanian (not comparable)
- not comparableOf, or relating to, Tripolitania.
Two of the locomotives remaining in Italy were sent across the Mediterranean to Tripoli, at the time a base for Rommel's armies in North Africa, although they could not run on the 3 ft. 1½ in.-gauge Tripolitanian railways.
1955 December, P. M. Kalla-Bishop, “Letters to the Editor: Italian-Built Garratts in Africa”, in Railway Magazine, page 873
nounTripolitanian (plural Tripolitanians)
plural Tripolitanians
- An inhabitant or native of Tripolitania.
Origin
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