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Webster 1913 Edition

Morocco

Mo-roc′co

,
Noun.
[Named from
Morocco
, the country. Cf.
Morris
the dance.]
A fine kind of leather, prepared commonly from goatskin (though an inferior kind is made of sheepskin), and tanned with sumac and dyed of various colors; – said to have been first made by the Moors.

Webster 1828 Edition

Morocco

MOROC'CO

,
Noun.
A fine kind of leather; leather dressed in a particular manner; said to be borrowed from the Moors.

Definition 2024

Morocco

Morocco

See also: morocco

English

Morocco

Proper noun

Morocco

  1. A coastal country in North-western Africa. Official name: Kingdom of Morocco.

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References

  1. ↑ Regions of Morocco, statoids.com, accessed 2007-09-07

morocco

morocco

See also: Morocco

English

Book bound in a mustard-yellow morocco

Noun

morocco ‎(plural moroccos)

  1. A soft leather, made from goatskin, used especially in bookbinding.
    • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 164:
      Piers put the letter in an envelope and slipped it into a green morocco-covered volume on the window seat – his sister's diary.

Synonyms

  • (soft leather): maroquin, morocco leather

Etymology

Earlier spelling Marocco, from Spanish Marruecos or Portuguese Marrocos, from Medieval Latin Marrochium, from former capital Marrakech (whence English Marrakech).[1] (Compare Persian and Urdu, which refer to Morocco as مراکش ‎(“marâkeš”), and Middle Eastern Arabic, which used مراكش ‎(“marraakush”) until recently; Turkish refers to Morocco as Fas, from Fas ‎(“Fez”), another capital.) Marrakech is in turn from Berber Murt n Akush ‎(“Land of God”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /məˈrɒkəʊ/
  • (US) enPR: məräk'ō, /məˈrɑkoʊ/
  • Rhymes: -ɒkəʊ

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