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Webster 1913 Edition
Shagreen
Sha-green′
,Verb.
T.
To chagrin.
[Obs.]
Sha-green′
,Noun.
[F.
chagrin
, It. zigrino
, fr. Turk. saghri
the back of a horse or other beast of burden, shagreen. Cf. Chagrin
.] 1.
A kind of untanned leather prepared in Russia and the East, from the skins of horses, asses, and camels, and grained so as to be covered with small round granulations. This characteristic surface is produced by pressing small seeds into the grain or hair side when moist, and afterward, when dry, scraping off the roughness left between them, and then, by soaking, causing the portions of the skin which had been compressed or indented by the seeds to swell up into relief. It is used for covering small cases and boxes.
2.
The skin of various small sharks and other fishes when having small, rough, bony scales. The dogfishes of the genus
Scyllium
furnish a large part of that used in the arts. Webster 1828 Edition
Shagreen
SHAGREE'N
,Noun.
Definition 2024
shagreen
shagreen
English
A shagreen covered box.
Noun
shagreen (countable and uncountable, plural shagreens)
- An untanned leather, often dyed green; originally made from horse skin, today mostly made from the skin of a shark or ray.
Synonyms
See also
Verb
shagreen (third-person singular simple present shagreens, present participle shagreening, simple past and past participle shagreened)
- (transitive) To give a texture resembling shagreen leather.
References
- ↑ "shagreen." The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2008.
- ↑ “shagreen” in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Online.
- ↑ Webster's New World College Dictionary 2010