marocain

A heavy crepe fabric of silk, wool, or both, having a cross-ribbed texture, used for apparel.

For summer tailored costumes it will be unequalled. "Toile Marocain," is a quite new fabric neither silk nor wool, but a special mixture of silk and goat's wool, that resembles the coarse stuff the native Arabs use in making their great burnouse—a hooded cape—and it comes in plain colors, particularly elephant gray, adapted to tailored costumes; and it is produced in chinè weaves with a Toile de Jouy effect, for little jackets and waistcoats.

Rodier's favored wool fabric this spring is Crêpella, a wool crêpe marocain. It is evident that crêpe gained such favor during the past season that Rodier now applies the same process to woolens.

A variety of grape.

Gros Maroc (Marocain).—Bunches large, long, and shouldered, and with a long stalk. Berries large and oval. Skin thick, of a deep reddish-purple, and covered with an abundant blue bloom. Flesh tender, sweet, and richly flavoured.

Gros Maroc. Marocain. An excellent variety, ripening after Black Hamburgh. A great bearer, well suited to a cold vinery.

A name used for two unrelated varieties of French wine grape, carignan and cinsault.