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shagreen

Shagreen, rough granular leather (later also sharkskin), is an English spelling of French chagrin, usually traced to Turkish sağrı 'rump of a horse', but the French word's history is tangled and disputed. Balzac's novel La Peau de chagrin made the word famous in Russian.

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