shagreen

My dictionary says that shagreen is a kind of untanned leather (by which it presumably means rawhide), or “the rough skin of various sharks and rays.” Wikipedia says that shagreen is a kind of rawhide, from a horse or a shark or a ray. (I’m paraphrasing.)

Both indicate that the word derives from the French word chagrin.

The word has been around in English for centuries, but somehow I don’t think I had ever encountered it before.

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