Definition of "morocco"

morocco

noun
countable and uncountable, plural moroccos
1. A soft leather, made from goatskin, used especially in bookbinding.
  Quotations
  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, page 184
  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
2. A sheepskin leather in imitation of this.
3. A very strong ale, anciently brewed in Cumberland.