E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Morocco Men (The).
Public-house and perambulating touts for lottery insurances. Their rendezvous was a tavern in Oxford Market, on the Portland estate, at the close of the eighteenth century. In 1796 the great State lottery employed 7,500 Morocco men to dispose of their tickets.
