Molucca
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Indonesian Maluku.
Proper noun[edit]
Molucca (plural Moluccas)
- (especially in the plural) The Molucca Islands, a group of islands in southeast Asia which are now part of Indonesia.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, volume 10:
- And now on earth it selfe enlarged has / From th'utmost brinke of the Armericke shore / Unto the margent of the Molucas?
Derived terms[edit]
See also[edit]
- (not to be confused with) Malacca