shagreen

Meanings

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 An untanned leather, often dyed green; originally made from horse skin, today mostly made from the skin of a shark or ray.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

1. To give a texture resembling shagreen leather.

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.