Definition of Triple Frontier

1. Noun. The border area where Argentina and Brazil and Paraguay meet; an active South American center for contraband and drug trafficking and money laundering; a suspected locale for Islamic extremist groups.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Triple Frontier

Trinity Monday
Trinity River
Trinity Sunday
Trionychidae
Trionyx muticus
Trionyx spiniferus
Triopidae
Triops
Triostium
Triostium perfoliatum
Tripehound
Tripier
Tripier's amputation
Triple-O
Triple Crown
Triple Frontier (current term)
Triple Goddess
Triplex
Triplochiton
Triplochiton scleroxcylon
Tripoli
Tripolitan
Tripolitania
Tripolitanian
Tripolitans
Tripura

Literary usage of Triple Frontier

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Antiquarian researches in Illyricum, parts I and II. (From Archaelogia). by Arthur John Evans (1883)
"More recently I learn that a schoolmaster from Srb on the triple frontier has discovered another Roman monument in the ..."

2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1906)
"... broad-headed lake-dwellers, whose mode of life is the only one which enabled them to circumvent the triple frontier of the Alpine and Apennine forests, ..."

3. Is War Civilization? by Kristoffer Nyrop (1917)
"sented North Italy with a triple frontier, the political, the linguistic, and the historical. The last is likewise described as the natural one, ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"... was formed about the triple frontier of Bosnia, Croatia, and Dalmatia, and a "Little Walachia" as far north as Posega. The Morlacos have now become ..."

5. America and Her Resources: Or, A View of the Agricultural, Commercial by John Bristed (1818)
"Situated in the centre of continental Europe, girt round about on all sides with a triple frontier of unassailable fortresses; full, to the overflowing, ..."

6. America and Her Resources: Or, A View of the Agricultural, Commercial by John Bristed (1818)
"... girt round about on all sides with a triple frontier of unassailable fortresses; full, to the overflowing, of a people, abounding in military genius and ..."

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