shagreen

shagreen englanniksi

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 An untanned leather, often dyed green; originally made from horse skin, today mostly made from the skin of a shark or ray.

2. (quote-book)

3. August 1935, (w), ''(w)'', "The Treader of the Dust":

On the old lecturn or reading-stand which he used for his heavier tomes, ''The Testaments of Carnamagos'', in its covers of shagreen with hasps of human bone, lay open at the very page which had frightened him so unreasonably with its eldritch intimations.

4. A rough or spiny surface of an insect's cuticle.

5. (quote-journal)

6. To give a texture resembling shagreen leather.