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語源

From the country name of Morocco, from which this leather was originally imported. Compare maroquin.

発音

• ハイフネーション: mo‧roc‧co

名詞

morocco (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 moroccos)

1. A soft leather, made from goatskin, used especially in bookbinding.
   • 1842, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Lady Anne Granard, volume 1, page 184:

     The purple morocco cases accompanying the latter contained a handsome set of gold ornaments. Louisa was deeply gratified, even more on Charles's account than on her own; it was such injustice on the part of her family to treat him with such insolence as Lady Anne and Lady Rotheles displayed.