different between morocco vs gnawa

English

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

morocco (countable and uncountable, plural moroccos)

A soft leather, made from goatskin, used especially in bookbinding.
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 164:
  Piers put the letter in an envelope and slipped it into a green morocco-covered volume on the window seat – his sister's diary.
A sheepskin leather in imitation of this.
A very strong ale, anciently brewed in Cumberland.

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