French Maroc. Spanish Marruecos. a kingdom in northwestern Africa: formed from a sultanate that was divided into two protectorates French Morocco and Spanish Morocco and an international zone. 172,104 sq. mi. (445,749 sq. km). Rabat.
former name of Marrakesh.
(lowercase) a fine, pebble-grained leather, originally made in Morocco from goatskin tanned with sumac.
(lowercase) any leather made in imitation of a fine, pebble-grained leather originally made in Morocco.
C17: after Morocco , where it was originally made
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Since then, the African dinosaur map has expanded, with rich fossil beds in South Africa, Lesotho, Tanzania, Egypt, Niger, Malawi, Madagascar and Morocco.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
Rwanda, which has signed a 10-year deal to host an African Grand Prix from the "early 2030s", has succeeded where Morocco and South Africa, among others, have failed.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Although most returned to Morocco within days, thousands remained in Ceuta, sleeping rough in the streets or on beaches and straining the small city's resources.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
I was in Morocco shooting “Black Hawk Down,” and I had to come back to do press for “Pearl Harbor.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Tunisia reminded me so much of Morocco, such that walking around all day with Akhi, I never once felt like I was different.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
It then moved through the hands of bookseller James Edwards to Sir Mark Masterman-Sykes, the famed nineteenth-century book collector, who had it re-bound in red morocco gilt.
From The Guardian ● May 11, 2016
Mr. Fellowes’s show could easily be dismissed as a Harlequin romance novel in morocco leather binding, but it casts a spell on viewers not unlike the allure of a Harry Potter novel.
From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2014
In Whitehall his secretaries did their best to keep down the contents of the red morocco dispatch box which had to be sent to the P.M. each day.
From Time Magazine Archive
Above this hubristic album, the stuff of history begins-floodlit document boxes, bound in red morocco with a gold presidential seal emblazoned on each one, stretching tier on tier to the roof.
From Time Magazine Archive
He soon stirred; my eye was instantly drawn to his movements; he only took out a morocco pocket-book, thence produced a letter, which he read in silence, folded it, put it back, relapsed into meditation.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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