Crossword clues for morocco
morocco
- Casablanca setting
- View from Gibraltar
- Casablanca's country
- Soft goatskin leather
- Leather made from goatskin
- Home to many Berbers
- Country in NW Africa
- Casablanca is its largest city
- Troubled corner of Africa
- Site #3
- Road picture locale
- Rabat locale
- Marrakesh setting
- Marrakech's land
- Land of the Riffs
- Home of the Ouzoud Falls
- Fine goatskin leather
- Country whose flag is solid red with an emerald pentagram
- Country on the Strait of Gibraltar
- Casablanca's home
- Casablanca locale
- African country nearest Spain
- African country — leather
- Hassan II's land
- Pocketbook material, maybe
- Rare-book binding
- Fez's place
- Fine leather
- Home of the Atlas Mountains
- A kingdom (constitutional monarchy) in northwestern Africa
- Achieved independence from France in 1956
- A soft pebble-grained leather made from goatskin
- Used for shoes and book bindings etc.
- Whence some leather
- Where Fez is
- Country cricket club on no runs after second run-out
- Way of working: very ornate, disregarding one old leather
- N African country
- Louis Quinze style, missing nothing on way of working leather
- African country - leather
- Bird caught in low country
- Soft leather
- Algeria neighbor
- North African country
- "Casablanca" setting
- Bookbinder's leather
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Morocco \Mo*roc"co\, n. [Named from Morocco, the country. Cf. Morris the dance.] A fine kind of leather, prepared commonly from goatskin (though an inferior kind is made of sheepskin), and tanned with sumac and dyed of various colors; -- said to have been first made by the Moors.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
country in northwest Africa, from Italian, from Berber Marrakesh (properly the name of the city of Marrakesh), from Arabic Maghrib-al-Aqsa "Extreme West." Compare French Maroc, German Marokko. In English, the first vowel has been altered, apparently by influence of Moor. Related: Moroccan.
"kind of fine flexible leather," 1630s, earlier maroquin (16c.), via French; ultimately from Morocco, the country in northwest Africa, where the tanned leather first was made.
Wiktionary
n. A soft leather, made from goatskin, used especially in bookbinding.
WordNet
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 508
Land area (2000): 0.578851 sq. miles (1.499216 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.578851 sq. miles (1.499216 sq. km)
FIPS code: 51138
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 40.945650 N, 87.454193 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 47963
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Morocco
Wikipedia
Morocco (; ; ), officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. Geographically, Morocco is characterized by a rugged mountainous interior and large portions of desert. It is one of only three countries (with Spain and France) to have both Atlantic and Mediterranean coastlines. The Arabic name al-Mamlakah al-Maghribiyah (, meaning "The Western Kingdom") and Al- Maghrib (, meaning "The West") are commonly used as alternate names.
Morocco has a population of over 33.8 million and an area of . Its political capital is Rabat. The largest city is Casablanca. Other major cities include Marrakesh, Tangier, Tetouan, Salé, Fes, Agadir, Meknes, Oujda, Kenitra, and Nador. A historically prominent regional power, Morocco has a history of independence not shared by its neighbours. Its distinct culture is a blend of Arab, indigenous Berber, Sub-Saharan African, and European influences.
Morocco claims the non-self-governing territory of Western Sahara as its Southern Provinces. Morocco annexed the territory in 1975, leading to a guerrilla war with indigenous forces until a cease-fire in 1991. Peace processes have thus far failed to break the political deadlock.
Morocco is a constitutional monarchy with an elected parliament. The King of Morocco holds vast executive and legislative powers, especially over the military, foreign policy and religious affairs. Executive power is exercised by the government, while legislative power is vested in both the government and the two chambers of parliament, the Assembly of Representatives and the Assembly of Councillors. The king can issue decrees called dahirs which have the force of law. He can also dissolve the parliament after consulting the Prime Minister and the president of the Constitutional court.
Morocco's predominant religion is Islam, and the official languages are Arabic and Berber. Moroccan Arabic, referred to as Darija, and French are also widely spoken. Morocco is an influential member of the Arab League and a part of the Union for the Mediterranean. It has the sixth-largest economy in Africa.
Morocco is a country in Africa.
Morocco may also refer to:
- Morocco, Indiana, USA
- Morocco, West Virginia, USA
- Morocco (1930 film)
- El Morocco, a famous nightclub in New York City
- Morocco leather
See also:
- Marocco (also spelled Morocco), a 16th-century performing horse
- Don Muraco, former professional wrestler
'Morocco ' is a 1930 American Pre-Code romance drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, and Adolphe Menjou. Based on the novel Amy Jolly by Benno Vigny and adapted by Jules Furthman, the film is about a cabaret singer and a Legionnaire who fall in love during the Rif War, but their relationship is complicated by his womanizing and the appearance of a rich man who is also in love with her. The film is most famous for the scene in which Dietrich performs a song dressed in a man's tailcoat and kisses another woman (to the embarrassment of the latter), both of which were rather scandalous for the period.
''Morocco '' was nominated for four Academy Awards in the categories of Best Actress in a Leading Role (Marlene Dietrich), Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography and Best Director (Josef von Sternberg). In 1992, Morocco was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Usage examples of "morocco".
Water bill, a public service announcement about Park Beautification Week, and a letter from Morocco.
So he sold to a Jewish merchant in the Mellah the couches and great chairs which he had bought out of England, as well as the carpets from Rabat, the silken hangings from Fez, and the purple canopies from Morocco city.
Prince of Morocco: Mislike me not for my complexion-- The shadowed livery of the burning sun.
And so on that momentous day I became proprietor of Nonsuch Books, where I have lived ever since in the disorder of several thousand morocco- and buckram-bound companions.
Visitors held a plenary session in a spaceship off Morocco, which I was privileged to attend.
The Bond Street man stripped away all the velvet and morocco, plucked up the Turkey carpet, draped the scuttle-ports with pale yellow cretonne garnished with orange pompons, subdued the glare of the skylight by a blind of oriental silk, covered the divans with Persian saddlebags, the floor with a delicate Indian matting, and furnished the saloon with all that was most feminine in the way of bamboo chairs and tea-tables, Japanese screens and fans of gorgeous colouring.
Of Zinder merchants there are but two of consequence, the Morocco Shereef, Konchai, and Haj Amurmur, a Tibboo.
Morocco was tough and getting tougher, but violently anti-Israel, sometime Maoist-leaning Algeria made any relocation assignment practically a suicide mission.
He spoke as if no one else knew of these Almohads, the Berbers of Morocco who were taking all by storm, whereas most of Palermo knew of them, and all those in the palace service.
On the side of the land, they were pressed by the Almohades, the fanatic princes of Morocco, while the sea-coast was open to the enterprises of the Greeks and Franks, who, before the close of the eleventh century, had extorted a ransom of two hundred thousand pieces of gold.
The Almoravids in Morocco and Spain also actively killed djinn they found.
General Gouraud talked in his deep, melodious voice of other wars in which he had fought, in Annam and Morocco and Madagascar, and the white-mustached old general of artillery at my left illustrated, with the aid of the knives and forks, a new system of artillery fire, which, he assured me very earnestly, would make pudding of the German trenches.
North and the South Franks had ships there, as did the Spanish, the Aragonese, the Emirate of Granada, the Sultan of Morocco, the Hafsid caliph, the Grand Duchy of Sardinia, the King of Sicily, the Prince of Serbia, the Archcount of Corfu, and the King of Hungary.
Roman See for as long as I can recallboth the North and the South Franks had ships there, as did the Spanish, the Aragonese, the Emirate of Granada, the Sultan of Morocco, the Hafsid caliph, the Grand Duchy of Sardinia, the King of Sicily, the Prince of Serbia, the Archcount of Corfu, and the King of Hungary.
Sir Thomas Browne, in full crushed Levant morocco, the backstrips tooled in gilt with wonderful ingenuity and grace.