morocco

What it means

1. countableuncountableA soft leather, made from goatskin, used especially in bookbinding.

   Piers put the letter in an envelope and slipped it into a green morocco-covered volume on the window seat – his sister's diary.

   1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 164

   1 more example

   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.

   1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 184

   Synonyms: maroquin, morocco leather

2. countableuncountableA sheepskin leather in imitation of this.
3. countableuncountableA very strong ale, anciently brewed in Cumberland.

In a sentence

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.

1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 184

Where it comes from

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