Look up: Shagreen

1. Shagreen
   From Turkish 'saghri' and means the croup of a beast. Originally made in Persia from hides of asses, horses and camel, probably untanned. Seeds of a species of Chenopodium were trampled into the skin when it was moist and shaken out when it dried, thus leaving granular indentations. The material was...
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2. shagreen
   1 Highly polished skin of sharks and sting rays, used from the 17thC for covering knife cases, hip flasks and other small items. 2 Untanned leather, originally made in Persia (Iran), with a coarse, granular finish and usually dyed green.
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3. Shagreen
   Sha·green' transitive verb To chagrin. [ Obsolete]
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4. Shagreen
   Sha·green' noun [ French chagrin , Italian zigrino , from Turk. saghri the back of a horse or other beast of burden, shagreen. Confer Chagrin .] 1. A kind of untanned leather prepared in Russia and the East, from the...
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5. shagreen
   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, ...
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6. Shagreen
   • (n.) 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. • (a.) Alt. of Shagreened • (n.) A kind of untanned leather prepared in Russia and the East, from the skin...
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7. shagreen
   (from the article `chondrichthian`) The hard scales provide an abrasive surface to the skin of sharks and some rays, giving it a special value, as a leather called shagreen, for ...
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8. Shagreen
   Originally the skin of the ass (from the Persian 'saghari', French 'chagrin'), a leather covered with indentations formed by rubbing seeds over the moist skin and rubbing them in. Much used for scabbards.
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9. shagreen
   Highly polished skin of sharks and sting rays, used from the 17thC for covering knife cases, hip flasks and other small items.
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10. Shagreen
    `Shagreen` is a type of leather or rawhide consisting of rough untanned skin, formerly made from a horse`s back or that of an onager (wild ass), and typically dyed green. Shagreen is now commonly made of the skins of sharks and rays. The word derives from the French chagrin and is related to ...
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