Crossword-Solution: FORMOSA 7 letters, 34 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

We have 34 clues for the answer “FORMOSA”

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Island whose name means "beautiful." 1 answer
formerly Taiwan capital 1 answer
Where Taipei is 1 answer
West Pacific island 1 answer
Taiwan, once 1 answer
Taiwan, formerly 1 answer
Taiwan's former name 1 answer
Taiwan alias 1 answer
Taiwan 1 answer
Taipeh is its capital. 1 answer
Strait between Quemoy and Matsu. 1 answer
Portuguese name for Taiwan 1 answer
Old country name from the Portuguese for "beautiful" 1 answer
Last stand of Chinese Nationalists. 1 answer
Japan's "Gibraltar." 1 answer
Jap island off China. 1 answer
Island under Japanese rule, 1895–1945. 1 answer
Island surrendered to China by Japan. 1 answer
Island east of Amoy. 1 answer
Island ceded to Japan by China, 1895. 1 answer
Headquarters of Chiang Kai-shek. 1 answer
Geographical headliner. 1 answer
Former name of Taiwan 1 answer
Former country name so called by Portuguese sailors for its beauty 1 answer
Crucial part of the Far Eastern problem. 1 answer
Chinese Nationalist stronghold. 1 answer
Chiang's stronghold. 1 answer
Big news in State of Union speech. 1 answer
Alternate name of Taiwan that means "beautiful" in Portuguese 1 answer
Alternate name of Taiwan 1 answer
Taipei is its capital. 2 answers
Strategic Pacific island. 3 answers
SOUTH American province 3 answers
ARGENTINIAN province 12 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FORMOSA (5)

And when you went out of your way and risked your ship to rescue some Chinamen from a water-logged junk in Formosa Straits, that was also a clever piece of business.
An Outcast of the Islands Joseph Conrad 2006
Quintia formosa est multis, mihi candida, longa, Recta est; haec ego sic singula confiteor: Tota illud formosa nego: nam multa venustas; Nulla in tam magno est corpore mica salis.
Lucasta Richard Lovelace 1996
Struys, a Dutch traveler in Formosa in the seventeenth century, describes a wild man caught and tied for execution who had a tail more than a foot long, which was covered with red hair like that of a cow.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine George M. Gould 1996
Japan, having defeated China in the war of 1895, occupied the island of Formosa and in the year 1905 began to lay claim to the entire empire of Corea.
The Story of Mankind Hendrik van Loon 1996
This occurred in 1922, and in seven bloody months Manchuria, Korea, and Formosa were taken away from her and she was hurled back, bankrupt, to stifle in her tiny, crowded islands.
The Strength of the Strong Jack London 2013

Quotes with FORMOSA (1)

I started in our neighborhood, buying a pastrami burrito at Oki Dog and a deluxe gardenburger at Astro Burger and matzoh-ball soup at Greenblatt's and some greasy egg rolls at the Formosa. In part funny, and rigid, and sleepy, and angry. People. Then I made concentric circles outward, reaching first to Canter's and Pink's, then rippling farther, tofu at Yabu and mole at Alegria and sugok at Marouch; the sweet-corn salad at Casbah in Silver Lake and Rae's charbroiled burgers o…
Aimee Bender The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, WP.

Used 35 times in crossword archives (1942–2015).