morocco
See also: Morocco
English
Book bound in a mustard-yellow morocco
Etymology
From the country name of Morocco, from which this leather was originally imported. Compare maroquin.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: mo‧roc‧co
Noun
morocco (countable and uncountable, plural moroccos)
- A soft leather, made from goatskin, used especially in bookbinding.
- 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, OCLC 1000392275, page 184:
- The purple morocco cases accompanying the latter contained a handsome set of gold ornaments. Louisa was deeply gratified, even more on Charles's account than on her own; it was such injustice on the part of her family to treat him with such insolence as Lady Anne and Lady Rotheles displayed.
- 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.
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- A sheepskin leather in imitation of this.
- A very strong ale, anciently brewed in Cumberland.
Synonyms
- (soft leather): maroquin, morocco leather
Derived terms
- French morocco, Levant morocco, Persian morocco