Shagreen Definition

shə-grēn

noun

The hard, rough skin of the shark or dogfish, used as a polisher.

Webster's New World

Rawhide with a rough, granular surface, made from the skin of the horse, seal, etc.

Webster's New World

The rough hide of a shark or ray with embedded denticles, used as an abrasive and as leather.

American Heritage

An untanned leather with a granular surface that is often dyed green.

American Heritage

verb

To give a texture resembling shagreen leather.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Shagreen

Singular:

shagreen

Plural:

shagreens

French chagrin leather made from the croup of a horse, donkey, or mule alteration (probably influenced by French chagrin chagrin, because such leather is rough) of Middle French sagrin from Turkish sağrı croup, leather made from a horse's croup from Old Turkic perhaps akin to Mongolian saɤu- to sit

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
French chagrin leather made from the croup of a horse, donkey, or mule alteration (probably influenced by French chagrin chagrin, because such leather is rough) of Middle French sagrin from Turkish sağrı croup, leather made from a horse's croup from Old Turkic perhaps akin to Mongolian saɤu- to sit

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
However, the etymology of French chagrin is complex and disputed, likely of Germanic origin - whether there was any influence between an existing French word of Germanic origin and a Turkish loan is unclear.

From Wiktionary
1677, Anglicized form of chagrin, from French chagrin, from Turkish sağrı.

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