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  Morocco

  noun

  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.
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Morocco

American  

[muh-rok-oh] / məˈrɒk oʊ /

noun

1. 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.

2. former name of Marrakesh.

3. (lowercase) a fine, pebble-grained leather, originally made in Morocco from goatskin tanned with sumac.

4. (lowercase) any leather made in imitation of a fine, pebble-grained leather originally made in Morocco.

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morocco ¹ British  

/ məˈrɒkəʊ /

noun

1. 1. a fine soft leather made from goatskins, used for bookbinding, shoes, etc

   2. ( as modifier )

      morocco leather

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Morocco ² British  

/ məˈrɒkəʊ /

noun

1. French name: Maroc. a kingdom in NW Africa, on the Mediterranean and the Atlantic: conquered by the Arabs in about 683, who introduced Islam; at its height under Berber dynasties (11th–13th centuries); became a French protectorate in 1912 and gained independence in 1956. It is mostly mountainous, with the Atlas Mountains in the centre and the Rif range along the Mediterranean coast, with the Sahara in the south and southeast; an important exporter of phosphates. Official language: Arabic; Berber and French are also widely spoken. Official religion: (Sunni) Muslim. Currency: dirham. Capital: Rabat. Pop: 32 649 130 (2013 est). Area: 458 730 sq km (177 117 sq miles)

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Morocco Cultural  

1. Kingdom in northwestern Africa with coasts on the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea; it is bordered by Algeria to the east and the western Sahara to the south. Its largest city is Casablanca, and its capital is Rabat.

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Other Word Forms

• Moroccan
  adjective
• anti-Moroccan
  adjective
• pro-Moroccan
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of morocco

C17: after _Morocco , where it was originally made

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Example Sentences

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Morocco morocco

Days later, Spain signed the Madrid Accords with Morocco and Mauritania, agreeing to transfer administrative control.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Morocco has welcomed the end of a decades-long UN peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara, after a diplomatic showdown between the US and Russia left the Security Council unable to agree on its future.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Now the 2027 edition will begin in Loule-Faro in Portugal and end in Marrakech in Morocco.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Morocco took the northern two-thirds and Mauritania the southern third.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

“He’s back in Morocco, probably living the high life,” my father said.

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen

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

The item, bound in two gilt-tooled morocco volumes, was bought at auction by a Philadelphia lawyer for $120,000.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the huge Palace of Westminster, called the Houses of Parliament, the lords and mighty prelates of the Realm were sitting on benches of soft red morocco.

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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