Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Morocco; goat's leather.

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  • noun leather made from goatskin

Etymologies

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French, alteration of marocain ("Moroccan"), where the leather was first produced.

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Examples

  • The book includes many references to Joseph-Jerôme Lalande's L'Art de faire le maroquin and Quemiset promises to improve on that work. 17 reference The preface also connects this book to publications on dyeing cloth, suggesting that Quemiset will organize the subject of dyeing leathers and establish its rules as Hellot's, Macquer's, and Le Pileur d'Apligny's books had done for wool, silk, and cotton, respectively. reference

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • Note 17: Joseph Jérôme Lefrançais de Lalande, L'Art de faire le maroquin, ([Paris, 1766]). de Lalande also published earlier work on a similar subject L'Art du tanneur ([Paris], 1764). back

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • To those who did not think so deeply, and they were the greater number by a hundred to one, the splendour of Prince John's _rheno_, (_i. e_. fur tippet,) the richness of his cloak, lined with the most costly sables, his maroquin boots and golden spurs, together with the grace with which he managed his palfrey, were sufficient to merit clamorous applause.

    Ivanhoe 1892

  • On the other hand, if we could oblige Monsieur to comply with this law, he would be _désolé_; for it is not the matter which makes the book; it is the _maroquin rouge_.

    The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time William Carew Hazlitt 1873

  • To those who did not think so deeply, and they were the greater number by a hundred to one, the splendour of Prince John's rheno, (i.e. fur tippet,) the richness of his cloak, lined with the most costly sables, his maroquin boots and golden spurs, together with the grace with which he managed his palfrey, were sufficient to merit clamorous applause.

    Ivanhoe. A Romance 1819

  • Les Glorieuses Conquestes de Louis le Grand, par Pontault, _en maroquin_.

    Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811

  • ---- No. 2105, Vivre (Le livre intitulé l'art de bein) et de bien mourir, lettres gothiques, avec fig. en maroquin dorées sur tranches.

    Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811

  • ---- _Lettres Gothiques, fig. et bois et titre MSS. feuilles dorées, en maroquin, Paris, par

    Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811

  • -- _Des livres rares et précieux, reliés en maroquin, de la bibliothéque du même, Paris, an trois_

    Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811

  • 'A l'égard des ouvrages d'editions modernes, même celles faites en pays étranger, M. Berryer vouloit les avoir en feuilles: il en faisoit choisir, dans plusieurs exemplaires, un parfait, et il le faisoit relier _en maroquin de choix_; le

    Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811

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