<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><mads xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/mads/" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mads/
mads.xsd"><authority><topic authority="http://AATesaurus.cultura.gencat.cat/aat/getty_en">morocco</topic></authority><related type="narrower"><topic>hard grain morocco</topic></related><related type="narrower"><topic>levant</topic></related><related type="narrower"><topic>crushed morocco</topic></related><related type="broader"><topic>vegetable-tanned goatskin</topic></related><variant type="other"><topic>Morocco</topic></variant><variant type="other"><topic>morocco-leather</topic></variant><variant type="other"><topic>Moroccan leather</topic></variant><variant type="other"><topic>Morocco leather</topic></variant><variant type="other"><topic>moroccos</topic></variant> <note xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[ Fine, very firm, flexible hand-grained leather prepared from goatskin tanned with sumac, having a distinctive pebbly grain and used especially in bookbinding, shoemaking, and upholstery. Also may refer to any vegetable-tanned goatskin leather. The leather was thought to have been first developed in Morocco, for which it is named. ]]></note></mads>