trucial
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.50 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to a truce; specifically, to the truce obtaining between Britain and various Arab sheikdoms of the Oman peninsula.
adj
Pertaining to the Trucial States.
adj
Pertaining to the Trucial Coast.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
From truce + -al.