trucial

Adjective

Meaning

trucial (not comparable)

Of or pertaining to a truce; specifically, to the truce obtaining between Britain and various Arab sheikdoms of the Oman peninsula.

(historical) Pertaining to the Trucial States

(historical) Pertaining to the Trucial Coast

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Related terms

Trucial Oman Trucial States Trucial State Trucial Coast

Phrases with the word

Trucial Oman Trucial Coast

Anagrams

curtail urtical

Examples

A British decision, taken in early 1968, to withdraw from its involvement in the Trucial States, led to the decision to found a Federation. Source: Internet

Conflicts between the maritime communities of the Trucial Coast and the British led to the sacking of Ras Al Khaimah by British forces in 1809 and again in 1819, which resulted in the first of a number of British treaties with the Trucial Rulers in 1820. Source: Internet

In 1853, they signed a treaty with the United Kingdom, under which the sheikhs (the Trucial Sheikhdoms ) agreed to a "perpetual maritime truce". Source: Internet

It ran syndicated entertainment programmes and read news about the command to it garrisons stationed in the then Trucial States. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Truchet point Truchet tile truchman Trucial Coast Trucial Oman Trucial State