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shagreen|ʃəˈgriːn|
Also 7–8 shagrin, shaggreen, 8 shaggareen, 7–9 chagrin.
[Var. chagrin n.]
1. A species of untanned leather with a rough granular surface, prepared from the skin of the horse, ass, etc., or of the shark, seal, etc., and frequently dyed green. Also, an imitation of this.
1677[see 3]. 1698Fryer Acc. E. Ind. & P. 264 Hides and Leather from Bulgaria, Turky, and of their own dressing, which excels that we call..Shagreen for Durableness. 1710Steele Tatler No. 245 ⁋2 A Bible bound in Shagreen. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) VI. 239 His [the shark's] skin..being that substance which covers instrument cases, called shagreen. 1777Cook 3rd Voy. iii. ix. (1784) II. 174 The men of Mataia..cover..their bodies with a sort of shagreen, being skin of fishes. 1852C. Morfit Tanning & Currying (1853) 443 The genuine oriental shagreen is not a true leather, but a skin prepared by drying. 1891E. Peacock N. Brendon II. 327 A thin oval case covered with dark shagreen. 1907Galsworthy Country House i. i. 2 A tall man..whose tall wife carried a small bag of silver and shagreen.
b. The skin of various sharks, rays, etc., which is covered with close-set calcified papillæ, forming a hard rough surface: used for polishing, etc.
1870Nicholson Man. Zool. lviii. (1875) 434 The so-called ‘shagreen’ of the Dog-fishes and sharks is composed of very small and close-set tooth-like processes. 1871Huxley Anat. Vert. iii. 126 Very commonly it [the integument of sharks, etc.] is developed into papillæ, which become calcified, and give rise to toothlike structures; these, when they are very small and close-set, constitute what is called shagreen. 1873Mivart Elem. Anat. vii. 277 These [calcifications] may be quite small and thickly distributed all over the body. A skin so furnished is called shagreen.
c. transf. in Iron-founding. (See quot.)
1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl., Shagreen, hard, colored, metallic spots found on the surface of iron castings.
†2. A silk fabric. Obs. rare.
1702Lady G. Baillie Househ. Bk. (1911) 197 For 5½ ells black shagrin..18 9 0. 1728Mrs. Delany in Life & Corr. (1861) I. 177, I..bought eighteen yards of very pretty white silk for Trott, something in the nature of shagreen, but a better colour than they ever are. 1741Anti-Pamela; Mem. Mr. J. Parry 129 Nicholas advised him..to have the suit lined with white Shagreen.
3. attrib. and Comb.
a. attrib. passing into adj., made of shagreen, as shagreen case, shagreen cover, shagreen skin.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Shagreen,..a sort of rough, green Leather; as A *Shagreen Case. 1730Inventory D. Bond's Goods (1732) 34 A Shaggareen Case for Bottles. 1852Thackeray Esmond iii. vii, She held out the black shagreen-case.
c1696Prior Cupid & Gan. 19 Two Table-Books in *Shagreen Covers.
1677J. P. tr. Tavernier's Trav. i. iv. 21 [They] wear Boots or Shooes of *Shagrin-Leather.
Ibid., *Shagrin-Skins. 1782–3W. F. Martyn Geog. Mag. I. 42 In this country are also manufactures of..shagreen skins and other leather.
b. (Sense 1 b.) shagreen-granule, shagreen point, shagreen scale; shagreen-ray, -skate, Raiia fullonica.
1896H. Woodward Guide Fossil Reptiles Brit. Mus. 82 In the majority of instances, the fossils [of sharks] consist merely of detached spines, *shagreen-granules, teeth, or pieces of cartilage.
1857H. Miller Test. Rocks ii. 58 An external armature, consisting of plates, spines, and *shagreen points of solid bone.
1776Pennant Brit. Zool. III. 77 *Shagreen Ray. I met with this species at Scarborough, where it is called the French Ray.
1849Murchison Siluria vii. 138 The fish-remains are chiefly those of the minute *Shagreen scales.
1882J. E. Tenison-Woods Fish New South Wales 191 *Shagreen-skate. Raiia fullonica. Britain.
c. Comb.: shagreen-covered, shagreen-like adjs.
1857H. Miller Test. Rocks i. 62 The dorsal spines and *shagreen covered skin of the common dog fish. 1864Sala Quite Alone I. viii. 131 Limp, green, shagreen-covered registers to keep the accounts in.
1840tr. Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 317 Others [of the subgenus Pimelodes] have the head oval, and a kind of helmet of *shagreen-like bones. |