Morocco

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  • noun. A soft fine leather of goatskin traditionally tanned with sumac and used especially for book bindings.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To convert into morocco.
  • noun. Leather made from goatskins, tanned with sumac, originally in the Barbary States, but afterward very largely in the Levant, and now produced in Europe from skins imported from Asia and Africa.
  • noun. Leather made in imitation of this, often of sheepskins, and used for the same purposes, but much more largely in shoemaking.
  • noun. A very strong kind of ale anciently made in Cumberland, said to have a certain amount of beef among its ingredients, the recipe being kept a secret.
  • Made or consisting of morocco; also, of the common red color of morocco leather.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A soft leather, made from goatskin, used especially in bookbinding.
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  • noun. a kingdom (constitutional monarchy) in northwestern Africa with a largely Muslim population; achieved independence from France in 1956
  • noun. a soft pebble-grained leather made from goatskin; used for shoes and book bindings etc.
  • Word Usage
    "He would publish 1,000 copies of each book; 500 in morocco and 500 in cloth boards of smooth red, magenta, puce or dark blue."
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