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Marikin(e, Marekin, -kyn(e, a. and n. Also: mari(c)ken, mariekin, marykin(e, -kyne, mareking, (-ky), marrekyne, mairikin, mair(i)ekin, marokin; meriken. [e.m.E. (1585) and F. maroquin orig. adj. = ‘pertaining to Morocco’.]

1. adj. Applied to a variety of leather made from goatskin, orig. as produced in Morocco; Morocco (-skin, -leather).(1) 1511 Treas. Acc. IV. 196.
v marykyne skynnis to ane sadill [etc.] … , price pece viij s. 1533 Ib. VI. 79. 1534 Ib. 190.
For ij marekyn skynnis to lyne the twa wamplatis to the Kingis speris, vj s. 1547 Ib. IX. 68.
Mareky skynnes 1548 Aberd. B. Rec. XX. (Jam.).
iiij dosoun of maryskyn [sic] skynnes 1559–60 Treas. Acc. XI. 17.
ij marikin skynnis, iiij li. c 1578 Maxwell Mem. I. 311.
Ane marekin skin 1580 Treas. Acc. MS. 36 (2).
Twa marykin skynnis to be his maiestie ane pair of dry ledder buittis 1590 Mill Mediæv. Plays 201.
Ane bybill … [with a covering of] ane marokin skin 1602 Shetland Sheriff Ct. (ed.) 35.
Certane marnikin [sic] skinnis 1611 Bk. Rates (Jam. s.v. Mariken).
Marekin skinnes 1661 Acts VII. 253/2.
Mariken skines made in Scotland 1670 Bk. Rates p. 76 (Jam. s.v. Mariken).
Marikin skins(2) 1629 Dumfries Test. I a. 215.
Ane coatt of marykyne lether worthe xl lb. 1639 Acts V. 618/1.
Ane exorbitant dearth of marikin lether that nather the schoemakeris marikinmakeris nor dresseris of the saidis buck and gaitt skynnes can have quharwith to work a1651 Calderwood V. 535. 1669 Acts VII. 560/1.
Spanish lether, mariken tand lether, wyld lether 1703 Foulis Acc. Bk. 314.

2. n. Morocco leather; a skin of this. b. Attrib. 1533 Treas. Acc. VI. 86.
Ane skyne and ½ marikyne, price thairof xiij s. vj d. 1534 Ib. 198.
Ane dosane marekynnis of Spanȝe, … xij li. 1538 Ib. VII. 9.
Ane sadill to the mul coverit witht mareking bandit with welvot 1566 Ib. XI. 510.
x Spanȝe skynnis of marikyn … the skyn l s. 1597 Bk. Rates MS. 10 b.
Marykine skinnis of blak cullour ilk skyne, xx s.; reid marykin ilk skin xx s. 1638 Fugitive Poetry II. xiii. 2/36.
I'le cause dresse leather and fyne marikinb. 1546 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 236.
Tua marekyne cotis, ane reid, the price xx s.; ane wther blak, the price x s. 1574 Edinb. Test. III. 177.
Ane pair of overledderis of marekin schone prisit to v s. 1583 Cal. Sc. P. VI. 690.
Ain pair of marikine mullis with ane pair of marikine schuis 1596 Crim. Trials I. 391.
Twa pair of marrekyne schone 1606 Edinb. Test. XLII. 133 b.
New marekin schone 1694 Foulis Acc. Bk. 165.
For a new black marikin suord belt to myselfe 1680 Ib. 54. 1701 Aberd. Journal N. & Q. VI. 184.
For a pair of maricken shous 2 libs 8½ shil.

c. Comb. with dresser, maker and man. 1592 Edinb. B. Rec. V. 65.
Patrik Fynlawsoun, mariekin maker 1622 Edinb. Marr. 1.
James Gilpatrik, marikin-dresser 1639 Acts V. 618/1.
Schoemakeris and marikin dresseris 1655 Edinb. Test. LXVIII. 221 b.
Mairikin maker 1669 Greyfriars Interments 4.
Mairekinman 1673 Ib. 512.
Mairiekin man 1692 Ib. 4.
Meriken maker