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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.
Group relationships: Argentina, Argentine Republic, Brasil, Brazil, Federative Republic Of Brazil, Paraguay, Republic Of Paraguay
Lexicographical Neighbors of Triple Frontier
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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