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Morocco, n.|mɒˈrɒkəʊ|
Also 7 morocko, maroco, 9 marocco, morrocco.
[The European name (= It. Marocco, Sp. Marruecos, F. Maroc) of the ‘sultanate’ or ‘empire’ called in Arabic Maγrib-al-Aqçā ‘Extreme West’, comprising the north-western part of Africa. The name properly belongs not to the country but to the chief city; its native form is Marrākesh.]
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1. Used attrib. in the sense ‘of or pertaining to, or made in Morocco’; esp. in the names of things coming (or supposed to have originally come) from Morocco, as Morocco cherry, Morocco daisy, Morocco gum, Morocco grape, Morocco-leech, Morocco plum.
1664Evelyn Kal. Hort., June (1706) 78 Cherries..Great⁓bearer, Morocco Cherry, the Egriot [etc.]. Ibid., Plums..the King's-Plum, Spanish, Morocco-Plum [etc.]. 1731Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Prunus §2 The early black Damask, commonly called The Morocco Plum. 1763Mills Pract. Husb. IV. 378 The morocco, or barbarou, is a large purple grape, the bunches of which are also of an extraordinary size. 1882Garden 8 July 19/3 The blue Morocco Daisy is much admired. 1887Bentley Man. Bot. (ed. 5) 538 Morocco,..or Brown Barbary Gum [is obtained] from Acacia arabica. 1891Syd. Soc. Lex., Morocco leech, the Sanguisuga interrupta. 1901Daily Chron. 7 Dec. 3/4 The Morocco youth has no tendency towards reform.
b. morocco leather: see 3. So morocco hides, morocco skins: the skins from which morocco is made.
1716Gay Trivia i. 30 Then let the prudent walker shoes provide, Not of the Spanish or Morocco hide. 1727–52Chambers Cycl. s.v., We have Morocco-skins brought from the Levant, Barbary, Spain, Flanders, and France.
†2. Morocco-man: see quots. Obs.
1796Colquhoun Police Metrop. (ed. 3) 153 note, Fraudulent Lottery Insurances have not diminished. The Offices are numerous all over the Metropolis,..to many of which there are persons attached, called Morocco Men, who go about from house to house among their former customers, and attend in the back parlours of Public Houses, where they are met by customers who make insurances. 1798Edgeworth Pract. Educ. (1811) I. 315 And the men who are sent about to public-houses to entice poor people into illegal lottery insurances, are called Morocco-men.
II. (Cf. maroquin.)
3. (In full morocco-leather.) Leather made from goatskins tanned with sumac, originally produced in Morocco (and other Barbary States), and afterwards in the Levant, Turkey, and now in Europe from skins imported from Asia and Africa; it is used particularly for bookbinding and upholstery. Also, a leather in imitation of this, made from sheepskins and lambskins, etc., and used for the same purposes, but chiefly in shoemaking.
French morocco, an inferior quality of Levant morocco, having a smaller and less prominent grain; imitation morocco, see above; Levant morocco, a high-grade morocco, with a large grain, properly made from the skin of the Angora goat; Persian morocco, see Persian a. 2.
[1600J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa ii. 61 Here is that excellent leather dressed, which is called leather of Maroco.] 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 151 Saddles of Veluet, some like the Morocko. 1695Motteux tr. St. Olon's Morocco 140 The Red Morocco Leather, known here by the Name of Spanish Leather, is drest in that City [Fez], and is the finest in all Barbary. 1727–52Chambers Cycl. s.v., The various manners of preparing Moroccos. Ibid., Manner of preparing black Morocco. Ibid., Red Morocco. 1743Pope Last Will Wks. 1751 IX. 268 All the volumes of my Works and Translations of Homer, bound in red morocco. 1771Ann. Reg. XIV. ii. 88/1 When they [sc. skins of the sea-lions] are tanned, they have a grain almost like Morocco. 1817Dibdin Bibliogr. Decam. II. 533 For your Fifteeners..let me entreat you invariably to use morocco. 1839Penny Cycl. XIV. 436/1 The marocco leather of the capital is yellow, that made in Tafilet green, and in Fez it is dyed red. 1852C. Morfit Tanning & Currying (1853) 363 Imitation Morocco..is prepared from sheep-skins in the same manner as true Morocco. 1870Yeats Nat. Hist. Comm. 297 Deer skins are used for the finer kinds of morocco leather, and for bookbinding. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 88/1 English, French, and Spanish moroccos all excel in their own way, either in grain or in colour. 1907Edin. Rev. Apr. 431 A..parchment album bound in green morocco.
b. attrib. in the sense ‘made of or covered with morocco’; also Comb., as morocco-bound, morocco-covered, morocco-like adjs.
1817Dibdin Bibliogr. Decam. II. 481 Your De Thous..are almost always in morocco bindings. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. (1849) 141 Small morocco-bound prayerbooks. 1827Disraeli Viv. Grey vii. iv, The morocco case was unlocked, and the manuscript of Haroun Al Raschid revealed. 1849Thackeray Pendennis vii, A little morocco box, which..contained the Major's back-teeth. 1858Mrs. Gore Heckington II. i. 16 A morocco-housewife or pocket-book. 1873‘Mark Twain’ & Warner Gilded Age II. ix. 97 A very official chair behind a long green morocco-covered table. 1886A. Hornblow tr. Normand's Splashes from Parisian Ink-Pot 83 Plunged in a big green morocco-covered fauteuil, he began to scan over the ‘dailies’. 1896Sat. Rev. 12 Dec. 623/2 ‘Little Eyolf’..has been promoted into a full-blown fashionable theatrical speculation, with a ‘Morocco Bound’ syndicate in the background. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 613 In lupus erythematosus the adherent crusts and morocco-like surface are a characteristic feature. 1958Listener 2 Oct. 520/2 Sentences like ‘I have still to see that lofty homeland of the potato and the llama’..belong to a solid, morocco-bound tradition.
c. local U.S. morocco-head, the American merganser, Mergus americanus; morocco-jaw, the surf-scoter or surf-duck, Œdemia perspicillata.
1888G. Trumbull Names of Birds 65, 103.
4. A fanciful name given to a kind of strong ale brewed at Levens Hall, Westmorland (now in Cumbria).
1792J. Budworth Fortn. Rambles Lakes 17 We were regaled by a liquor called Morocco..; it is of a high colour, and is made from malt and hops; has an acid taste, and does not ferment. 1870M. Collins Vivian III. ix. 186 Washed down with more copious draughts of strong ale and Morocco. 1894R. S. Ferguson Hist. Westmorland 285 Levens Hall..is also famed for its ‘morocco’ or old ale.
5. red morocco: a local name for the plant Adonis autumnalis or Pheasant's eye.
1771Encycl. Brit. I. 27/2 The English names [of the genus Adonis] are, adonis-flower, pheasant's eye, red maithes, or red morocco. 1863Prior Plant-n. 188 Red Morocco, from the colour of the petals, Adonis autumnalis.
6. in morocco, used by Longfellow as gipsy slang for: Stripped, naked. Cf. buff.
1843Longfellow Sp. Stud. iii. v, There you are in your morocco! |