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Learning new things every day. I think my Big Trouble in Little China childhood mind somehow assumed Formosa was a Taiwanese term corrupted by English maps.

I was just about to say that! The most common meanings are pretty, beautiful, stunning, and elegant.

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It is, in the sense that it was also Portuguese sailors who gave Taiwan’s main island that name, presumably because the 

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It is, in the sense that it was also Portuguese sailors who gave Taiwan’s main island that name, presumably because the _Ilha Formosa_ was easy on their eyes. ;)