Crossword clues for formosa
formosa
- Where Taipei is
- Old country name from the Portuguese for "beautiful"
- An island in southeastern Asia 100 miles off the coast of mainland China in the South China Sea
- Portuguese name for Taiwan
- Taiwan, once
- Old name for Taiwan
- Sailor sitting in first class in Taiwan once
- Island previously to get motorway round it
- Doctor boarding for South Africa's historic island
- Taiwan alias
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Formosa \Formosa\ prop. n. An island off the coast of China, also called Taiwan. It was occupied by Japan from 1895 to 1945, when it was returned to Chinese sovereignty. After the Communist revolution which took over the Chinese mainland in 1949, the Nationalist Chinese under Chang Kai-Shek retreated to the island of Formosa and established that island as the base of their government, being recognized for several years as the de jure possessor of the China seat in the United Nations. The capital is Taipei. As of 1998, both the Taiwan government and the mainland China government recognized Taiwan as properly a part of China, but the island is currently ruled as a de facto independent nation, though it does not possess a seat in the United Nations. The question of when and under what circumstances the island will be reunited with the mainland government is still unresolved.
Syn: Taiwan.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
old name of Taiwan, given by the Portuguese, from Portuguese Formosa insula "beautiful island." The adjective is from the fem. of Latin formosus "beautiful, handsome, finely formed," from forma (see form (n.)). Related: Formosan (1640s).
Wikipedia
Formosa may refer to:
Formosa is a 2005 feature comedy directed by Noah Kadner, written by Jamieson Stern, and Produced by Anita M. Cal. The movie starred Geoffrey Lewis and Steven Gilborn. It was filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico and was distributed internationally on cable. It won the Jury Award for Best Movie at the 2005 Garden State Film Festival and was feature at the Sedona Film Festival in Arizona.
- Redirect Formosa, Goiás
Formosa is an island in the Bissagos Islands, Guinea-Bissau. Its area is 140 km². It is located just off the West coast of the northern half of Africa.
Formosa is a popular surname in Malta. Formosa is also common in Spain, Portugal, Spanish colonies and other Mediterranean countries.
The name derives from the Latin name Formosus and Spanish word "fermoso", meaning "beautiful".
Formosa (1865–1881) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse that was the first winner of the English Fillies Triple Crown in addition to running a dead heat with the colt Moslem for the 2,000 Guineas Stakes. Formosa was bred by James Cookson and was foaled in 1865 at his Neasham Hall stud farm. Formosa was sold to William Graham (who raced under the pseudonym G. Jones) in 1866 and raced her entire three-year racing career under his ownership. After her racing career ended in 1871, she became a broodmare for Graham until his death in 1876. Formosa was exported to France in 1879 and died there in February 1881. While she did not produce offspring that excelled at racing, her daughters that were exported to Germany and New Zealand did produce descendants that were successful racers.
Usage examples of "formosa".
Formosa, as much afraid of being seen by a Dutch or English merchant ship as a Dutch or English merchant ship in the Mediterranean is of an Algerine manof-war.
Nepal and Thibet to the east of China and Formosa, and through Assam and Cachar south-eastward to Tenasserim and Siam.
At 0930 two flights of bombers from Formosa struck Baguio and the Tugugarao airfield in northern Luzon.
Lambertia formosa, little casuarinas, wild currants, or Leucopogon richei and bracken fern, were matted with kennedya, well out in crimson and black flowers, and here and there rising through them stood the gorgeous crimson waratah.
April 1 Okinawa, largest of the Ryukyu chain lying between Formosa and the southern tip of Japan, had been invaded and was currently being fought for in the fiercest, costliest and most savagely defended of all the island battles.
Picuda, Redfish and Spadefish, on 8 September, east of Formosa, sank three or four merchant ships out of a single convoy.
Pyramids of Egypt, the marketplace in old Tangiers, maybe an island off the coast of Formosa, or Turtleback Lane in Lovell on a thunderstruck afternoon in the summer of 1977.
He had now been in Formosa about two months and had studied the Chinese language every waking hour, but it was very difficult, and he found his usually ready tongue wofully handicapped.
Or I can go out on lifeguard station off Formosa as ordered, for the air strikes.
It also shone on the Formosa and on Oswald's Club, and the court-house where divorces came off a disassembly line, and on other places where people sought happiness.
Every pass of the reconsats over the Middle East and now the Formosa Strait resulted in copious numbers of download pictures, literally thousands of images which photo-interpretation specialists had to examine one by one in their new building close to Dulles Airport.
He had himself crushed most of Japan's residual air strength in the Formosa operation.
This view did not seem strange to Billy because he had been born here after his family and the other Formosa refugees had settled into these temporary quarters, hastily constructed on the ships that had been rotting, unwanted, at their mooring up the river at Stony Point ever since the Second World War.
The whole story is preserved in the Peking Academy and the historical archives of Taipeh in Formosa.