Meaning Of The Word Tripoli

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tripoli in American English
a usually light-colored, very finely divided, essentially siliceous material consisting either of weathered chert or siliceous limestone: used as a polishing powder
noun: one of the former Barbary States of N Africa: later a province of Turkey; now a part of Libya

Tripoli in British English
former Barbary State on the N coast of Africa
noun: a lightweight porous siliceous rock derived by weathering and used in a powdered form as a polish, filter, etc
noun: the capital and chief port of Libya, in the northwest on the Mediterranean: founded by Phoenicians in about the 7th century bc; the only city that has survived of the three (Oea, Leptis Magna, and Sabratha) that formed the African Tripolis ("three cities"

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