ambassador of Morocco
English
Etymology
Perhaps a reference to morocco leather.
Pronunciation
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Noun
ambassador of Morocco (plural ambassadors of Morocco)
- (idiomatic, obsolete) A shoemaker.
- 1824, Edward Baines, History of the Wars of the French Revolution Volume 3 page 195
- How was the letter sent? By this ambassador of Morocco. Who do you call by that name? The lady's shoe-maker.
- 1824, Edward Baines, History of the Wars of the French Revolution Volume 3 page 195
- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see ambassador, of, Morocco.
References
[Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811), “Ambassador of Morocco”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: Printed for C. Chappell, […], OCLC 23927885.
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