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marruecos

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Mar⋅rue⋅cos

  [mahr-rwe-kaws]
–noun
Spanish name of Morocco.

Mo⋅roc⋅co

  [muh-rok-oh]
–noun
1. French, Maroc. Spanish, Marruecos. a kingdom in NW Africa: formed from a sultanate that was divided into two protectorates (French Morocco and Spanish Morocco) and an international zone. 30,391,423; 172,104 sq. mi. (445,749 sq. km). Capital: Rabat. Compare Tangier Zone.
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 (lowercase) a fine, pebble-grained leather, originally made in Morocco from goatskin tanned with sumac.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 this.
Also called morocco leather (for defs. 3, 4).

Related forms:
Mo⋅roc⋅can  [muh-rok-uhn] , adjective, noun
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Morocco

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.

The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

morocco 
"kind of fine flexible leather," 1634, short for Morocco leather, from Morocco, the country in northwest Africa, where the tanned leather was first made. The country name is from It., from Berber Marrakesh (properly the name of the city of Marrakesh), from Ar. Maghrib-al-Aqca "Extreme West."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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