Crossword-Solution: MOLUCCAS
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| Clue | Answers |
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| MALUKU islands, former name of the | 1 answer |
| Spice Islands, today | 1 answer |
| SPICE Islands | 2 answers |
| SULAWESI island neighbor/neighbour | 6 answers |
| Indonesia island | 7 answers |
| island Indonesia | 7 answers |
| XAVIER (Saint Francis), country visited by | 9 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MCEEZA
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eruption
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Sentences with MOLUCCAS (5)
When, a generation after this time, one ship only of all the squadron of Magellan returned to Cadiz, after the first voyage round the world, she was loaded with spices from the Moluccas.
The night before last we passed the mouth of the bay in our two canoes, which we had lashed together after the fashion I had seen in the Moluccas, to keep them afloat in the surf.
Let you be going down the markets, and what would you see for sale? Boots, clothes, bread? No, they were out of sight; but scattered on the booths, the like of farls of bread on a fair-day, you'd find cloves and nutmegs, mace and ebony from Moluccas, that had come by way of Alexandria and the Syrian ports; sandalwood from Timor, in Asia; camphor from Borneo.
The Ke Islands are described with this group on account of their ethnology, though zoologically and geographically they belong to the Moluccas.
Ternate, with the small islands in a line south of it, as far as Batchian, constitute the ancient Moluccas, the native country of the clove, as well as the only part in which it was cultivated.
Quotes with MOLUCCAS (1)
After 1656 the Dutch, who had gained control over the Moluccas, chose the islands that could be most easily defended. They then burned all the nutmeg trees on the other islands to make sure no one else could profit from the trees. Anyone caught trying to smuggle nutmeg out of the Moluccas was put to death. The Dutch also dipped all their nutmegs in lime (a caustic substance) to stop the seed from sprouting and to prevent people from planting their own trees. Pigeons, however,…
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Appears in: USA TODAY.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2006).