spiceland
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]spiceland (plural spicelands)
- A region where spices are grown.
- 1900 April 7, Jack London, “(please specify the page number(s))”, in The Son of the Wolf: Tales of the Far North, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:
- The sunlands of the West and the spicelands of the East, the smiling Arcadias and blissful Islands of the Blest—ha! ha!
- 1996, Dauril Alden, The Making of an Enterprise, page 121:
- He promised handsome rewards to prospectors who uncovered long-anticipated mineral deposits and to those who would help make the Amazon a spiceland to replace the sources of cloves, ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg that Portugal had lost in the East.