morocco
IPA: mɝˈɑkoʊ
Root Word: Morocco
noun
- Morocco (a country in North Africa; official name: Kingdom of Morocco; capital: Rabat).
- A surname from Italian.
- A soft leather, made from goatskin, used especially in bookbinding.
- A sheepskin leather in imitation of this.
- A very strong ale, anciently brewed in Cumberland.
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Examples of "morocco" in Sentences
- This is the chief of the Guild of "morocco" workers of
- 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.
- Leathers with a prominent grained surface, such as morocco, seal or pig skin, may either have the grain rough or crushed flat.
- stupidity is everywhere… we had a map of the world hanging in class (in israel) and one girl points at morocco (next to the word morocco) and says: this is israel, right?
- Marrakech, the road to founders of tower of the Koutoubya at palace of the Bahia at the lamp-lighters of mixed population of bazaars of the "morocco" workers of olive-yards of the Menara of
- Handwritten and illustrated by Rowling herself and bound in morocco leather, silver ornaments, and semi-precious stones, The Tales of Beedle the Bard is a collection of five wizarding fairy tales.
- Here are to be found not only the silks and pottery, the Jewish goldsmiths 'work, the arms and embroidered saddlery which the city itself produces, but "morocco" from Marrakech, rugs, tent-hangings and matting from Rabat and Salé, grain baskets from
- The old binders used to be given forests that they might always have a supply of the skins of wild animals; the modern binder has to content himself with importing morocco, which is far the best leather there is, and is very much to be preferred to calf.
- Be sure and see that you have a coarse-grained levant morocco, which is much handsomer than the less good hard fine-grained morocco; of course it should be a polished or crushed levant binding, though when you see the pattern piece of leather it will be rough and unpolished.
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