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The city is Morocco’s most widely visited destination, known for its palaces, spice markets, tanneries and Jemaa El Fna, its noisy square full of food vendors and musicians.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 10, 2023

Pittards, based in Yeovil, Somerset, was founded in 1826 and has tanneries in Ethiopia.

From BBC • Aug. 13, 2023

As for water, urban factories, slaughterhouses, and tanneries often dumped waste directly into nearby bodies of water.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

The Fine Mycelium, the trademarked name for its patented technology, is then finished by outside tanneries.

From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2022

We soon had left behind us the warehouses and the reeking tanneries, and traversed pastureland on muddy tracks.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson