Shagreen definitions

Shagreen

1) Kind of untanned leather
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Shagreen

Shagreen is a type of rawhide consisting of rough untanned skin, formerly made from a horse`s back or that of an onager (wild ass). Shagreen is now commonly made of the skins of sharks and rays. The word derives from the French chagrin and is related to Italian zigrino and Venetian sagrin, derived from the Turkic sāğrī / çāğrī `rump of a .....
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shagreen

green dyed untanned leather
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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 skins of horses, asses, and camels, and grained so as ...
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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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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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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, scraping off the roughness left between them, and ...
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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and sting rays, used from the 17thC for covering knife cases, hip flasks and other small items. 2 Untanned leather, originally made in Persia (Iran), with a coarse, granular finish and usually dyed green.
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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 skins of horses, asses, and camels, and grained s...
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Shagreen

Sha·green' transitive verb To chagrin. [ Obsolete]
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Shagreen

a type of dyed granular leather used to cover boxes for the presentation of small silver items, jewels etc. Different skins have been used from horse and camel to shark (popular from mid 18th century). Fish skins are generally green in colour.
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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 then stained. In the 17th cent and later, shagree...
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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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