The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tripolitan \Tri*pol"i*tan\, a. Of or pertaining to Tripoli or its inhabitants; Tripoline. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Tripoli.
Usage examples of "tripolitan".
Only one prisoner was taken, a wounded Tripolitan, who swam to the ketch, and whose life was spared, notwithstanding strict orders not to take prisoners.
The ketch in which Decatur made his daring and successful expedition was christened the Intrepid, and fitted up as a floating mine with the purpose of sending her into the harbor, and exploding her in the midst of the Tripolitan shipping.
Pennsylvania, compiled an exceptional record in the Tripolitan war, and served in the Navy Department in Washington, D.
After one of the vessels in this squadron had been engaged by, and had defeated, a Tripolitan cruiser, the latter was permitted to return home.
Weldon was young and handsome, immaculately turned out in spite of the Tripolitan heat.
The Tripolitan Baron Fasil is ambitious and the sort who is not averse to embarrassing us to improve his own position here.