shagreen

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sha⋅green

[shuh-green]

–noun

1.	an untanned leather with a granular surface, prepared from the hide of a horse, shark, seal, etc.

2.	the rough skin of certain sharks, used as an abrasive.

–adjective

3.	Also, sha⋅greened. resembling, covered with, or made of shagreen.

Origin:
1605–15; < F chagrin, var. of sagrin < Turk sağrι rump, crupper

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sha·green (shə-grēn')

The rough hide of a shark or ray, covered with numerous bony denticles and used as an abrasive and as leather.
An untanned leather with a granular surface that is often dyed green.

[French chagrin, sagrin, from Turkish sari, crupper, leather.]
sha·green' adj.

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