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Shagreened   Listen
adjective
Shagreened, Shagreen  adj.  
1.
Made or covered with the leather called shagreen. "A shagreen case of lancets."
2.
(Zool.) Covered with rough scales or points like those on shagreen.





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"Shagreened" Quotes from Famous Books



... colour of a watch held up by one of the clergymen was white, yellow, blue, or black?—Black. (The watch was in a black shagreen case.) ...
— Apparitions; or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed • Joseph Taylor
... watch, with a whole bunch of charms against the evil eye. She cast before her, by a movement full of mute grace, a shagreen bag, which she carried in her belt. The brigand opened it with the eagerness of a custom-house officer. He drew from it a little English dressing-case, a vial of English salts, a box of pastilles of English mint, and a hundred and some odd ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 1 • Charles Dudley Warner


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