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Formosa [fawr-moh-suh] Examples noun
Examples from the Web for formosa Historical Examples of formosa
They raise the cane and make sugar in Formosa and the southern provinces.
Oliver Optic
Rice paper is made of the pith of a tree found only in Formosa.
Oliver Optic
All civilians on the islands who wished to go to Formosa were taken there.
Nathaniel Gordon
The Empress of Formosa will dock on Monday—about—nine in the morning.
Robert W. Chambers
Can this scene be duplicated in Formosa and Korea, where the Japanese hold sway?
Flash-lights from the Seven Seas
William L. Stidger
British Dictionary definitions for formosa Formosa noun
- the former name of Taiwan
Word Origin and History for formosa Formosa
old name of Taiwan, given by Portuguese, from Portuguese Formosa insula “beautiful island,” from fem. of Latin formosus “beautiful, handsome, finely formed,” from forma (see form (n.)).