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mocha2|ˈməʊkə|
Also 8 Mocco, 9 Moka, 9– Mocha.
[The name of an Arabian port at the entrance of the Red Sea.]
1. a. In full, mocha coffee: a fine quality of coffee; originally, that produced in the Yemen province of Arabia in which the town of Mocha is situated. [So F. Moka, Sp. café de Moca, Pg. cafe de Moka.]
1773Sir J. Pringle Let. in Encycl. Brit. (1797) V. 124/1 The coffee ought to be of the best Mocco. 1819S. Rogers Hum. Life Poems (1839) 14 Then fragrant clouds of Mocha and Souchong Blend as they rise. 1871M. Collins Mrq. & Merch. II. x. 292 The..lady would..sip a cup of strong Mocha. 1883Encycl. Brit. XVI. 540/2 The..name of Mochá coffee is derived from the shipment of coffee there.
b. Used attrib. of cakes, puddings, etc., flavoured with coffee, or coffee and chocolate.
1892A. B. Marshall Larger Cookery Bk. xii. 475 Moka Cake... Prepare a Genoise paste mixture.., bake for an hour and a quarter, then turn out, and, when cold, mask over with Coffee glace. 1908J. Kirkland Mod. Baker III. lxxxi. 390 A butter cream flavoured with coffee and vanilla..will be useful for flavouring and decorating the popular cakes known as Mocha fancies. 1963V. Nabokov Gift v. 305 Old Stupishin, whose spoon was working its way through a wedge of mocha cake. 1972M. J. Bosse Incident at Naha ii. 102 His skin was like rich mocha chocolate. 1975New Yorker 3 Feb. 26/2, I sold schnecken, cookies, apple turnovers, and mocha tarts.
c. A shade or tint of the colour of mocha coffee; a dark brown colour. Also mocha brown.
1895Montgomery Ward Catal. 274/3 Men's Fedora Hats... Colors: Blue black, mocha brown and slate. Ibid. 275/1 Fedora Hats... Colors: Black, dark brown, gray, tan and mocha. 1919T. S. Eliot Sweeney among Nightingales in Poems, The silent man in mocha brown Sprawls at the window sill and gapes. 1971Vogue 15 Sept. 15 Eye shadow in earthy wine, rose, turquoise and mocha. 1974Harrods Christmas Catal. 15 Leather clutch bag... Black, mocha brown, navy, rust, or terracotta.
2. a. mocha aloes: an inferior kind of hepatic aloes, of dark colour and nauseous smell, brought to Aden from the interior. b. mocha senna: ‘Indian’ senna, the product of Cassia lanceolata, angustifolia, or elongata.
1881Syd. Soc Lex., Aloes, Moka. 1882Bentley Man. Bot. (ed. 4) 524 The Common East Indian, Arabian, Mocha, or Bombay Senna is derived from Cassia angustifolia.
3. (See quot. 1968.) Also attrib.
1895Montgomery Ward Catal. 290/2 Men's dressed mocha kid gloves. 1922[see Boulton a.]. 1938E. Bowen Death of Heart ii. iv. 235 The stitching on her brown mocha gloves. 1968J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 238 Mocha, a fine, soft, hard-wearing leather made from sheepskin from Arabia, Africa and Persia. The chief outlet was Mocha in Arabia, hence the name. |