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shagreen

noun
/ʃəˈɡɹiːn/UK

Etymology

First use appears c. 1677, an Anglicized form of chagrin, from French chagrin, from Ottoman Turkish صاغری (modern Turkish sağrı). However, the etymology of French chagrin is complex and disputed, and likely of Germanic origin. Whether there was any influence between an existing French word of Germanic origin and a Turkish loan is unclear.

  1. derived from صاغری
  2. borrowed from chagrin

Definitions

  1. An untanned leather, often dyed green

    An untanned leather, often dyed green; originally made from horse skin, today mostly made from the skin of a shark or ray.

  2. A rough or spiny surface of an insect's cuticle.

    • If the shagreen dots be carefully observed they will be found to possess an annular arrangement.
    • The shagreen of the abdominal tergites generally consists of small spinules, singly or in caudally convex arcs.

  3. To give a texture resembling shagreen leather.

The neighborhood

Derived

shagreenate, shagreen ray

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA