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"The sobriquet, the Nutmeg State, is applied to Connecticut because its early inhabitants had the reputation of being so ingenious and shrewd that they were able to make and sell wooden nutmegs.
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The nutmeg tree is any of several species of trees in genus Myristica. ..... out of wood, creating a "wooden nutmeg" (a term which came to mean any fraud).
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Dec 11, 2011 ... The Massachusetts Wood Producers Association wants the state to put thousands of acres of forest damaged by the June 1 tornado, the two ...
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Nutmeg, the powder used for seasoning foods, is ground from the seed of the ... that they were able to make and sell "wooden" nutmegs to unsuspecting buyers.
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Eng. colloquial wooden nutmeg "anything false or fraudulent" is from 1830. Connecticut is called the Nutmeg State "in allusion to the story that wooden nutmegs ...
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Hawley's Wooden Nutmeg. By DANIEL DE LEON. General Joseph R. Hawley, United States Senator for Connecticut, has hit upon an ingenious plan to “remove ...
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Sep 13, 2004 ... Turner further notes that the term "wooden nutmeg" became "a metaphor for the ... A wooden nutmeg covered any kind of deception - including, ...
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