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morocco goatskin leather, dyed on the grain side and boarded by hand or machine to bring up the grain in a bird's-eye effect. It probably originated with the Arabs in North Africa as an alum-tanned product typically dyed red. The process later spread to the Levant, to Turkey, and along the Mediterranean, where sumac was used for tanning. Today the term is also applied to chrome-tanned goat leather whether boarded or embossed to show the characteristic grain; it is often crushed and glazed. Hard, but pliable, it is valued especially for bookbindings and purses. Levant morocco is larger grained; French morocco is a sheepskin imitation.

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Morocco applied to things originating in the country of north-west Africa so named, esp. to leather of goatskin. XVII. — It. Marocco, f. the name of the chief city Marrakesh.

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mo·roc·co / məˈräkō/ • n. (pl. -cos) fine flexible leather made (originally in Morocco) from goatskin tanned with sumac, used esp. for book covers and shoes: a volume bound in red morocco | [as adj.] morocco leather.

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