moroccos

Roan leather is nothing but sheep-skin, stained or colored; basil or basan is sheepskin tanned in bark, while roan is tanned in sumac, and most of the so called moroccos are also sheep, ingeniously grained by a mechanical process.

A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries Ainsworth Rand Spofford

In the Athenæum, on the contrary, many of the moroccos showed the same decay as the calf, russia and sheep.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Various

A second reason for preferring red in moroccos is that, being dyed with cochineal, it holds its color more permanently than any other -- the moroccos not colored red turning to a dingy, disagreeable brown after forty or fifty years, while the red are found to be fast colors.

A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries Ainsworth Rand Spofford

As to the merits and demerits of the different coloured moroccos, you will find these fully dealt with in the bookbinding manuals.

The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan

The binder will make up two little books, lettered with the collector's name on the cover, containing moroccos of different hues; one he will give to the collector, the other he will retain.

The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan

There was, however, a wide difference in the condition of moroccos of the same age -- some showing as much decay as the calf, while others had scarcely any of the disintegration common to the older calf bindings.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Various

Of these sleek moroccos, cream-white or dyed with cochineal or pomegranate skins, are made the rich bags of the Chleuh dancing-boys, the embroidered slippers for the harem, the belts and harnesses that figure so largely in

In Morocco Edith Wharton 1899

As they were called to dinner Alice and Ellen Chauncey came back; the former looking a little serious, the latter crying, and wishing aloud that all the moroccos had been in the fire.

The Wide, Wide World 1892

"Oh, I forgot to tell you!" she said, – "I asked aunt Sophia about the bag of moroccos, and she said she would have 'em early to-morrow morning, and then we can divide 'em right away."

The Wide, Wide World 1892

Presently the two girls came back, bring word to clear the table, for aunt Sophia was coming with the moroccos.

The Wide, Wide World 1892