shagreen
English
Etymology
1677, Anglicized form of chagrin, from French chagrin, from Turkish sağrı.[1][2][3]
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.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: sha‧green
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- An untanned leather, often dyed green; originally made from horse skin, today mostly made from the skin of a shark or ray.
- August 1935, Clark Ashton Smith, Weird Tales, "The Treader of the Dust":
- On the old lecturn or reading-stand which he used for his heavier tomes, The Testaments of Carnamagos, in its covers of shagreen with hasps of human bone, lay open at the very page which had frightened him so unreasonably with its eldritch intimations.
- August 1935, Clark Ashton Smith, Weird Tales, "The Treader of the Dust":
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, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ^ Webster's New World College Dictionary 2010