Definition of shagreen
English to English adjective - Made or covered with the leather called shagreen.
source: Webster 1913 noun - 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 then, by soaking, causing the portions of the skin which had been compressed or indented by the seeds to swell up into relief. It is used for covering small cases and boxes.
source: Webster 1913 verb - To chagrin.
source: Webster 1913
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shagreen, seagreen, sea green, sea-green, sage-green, sage green, screen, skreen, saharan, sarn, saarinen, squireen, shorn, saran, sarin, syren, shern, siren, scarn, saccharin
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