Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
shagreen .
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- noun Alternative form of
shagreen .
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Examples
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Someone told me it is something called "chagreen," but I never understood what that is.
LJWorld.com stories: News Terry Kovel 2010
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Someone told me it is something called "chagreen," but I never understood what that is.
LJWorld.com stories: News Terry Kovel 2010
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Someone told me it is something called "chagreen," but I never understood what that is.
JSOnline.com 2010
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Someone told me it is something called "chagreen," but I never understood what that is.
JSOnline.com 2010
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It is, I beleive a Compass & Sun-Dial, & is in a Black chagreen Case.
Jane Austen's Letters To Her Sister Cassandra and Others 1796
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A: Shagreen (not chagreen) is a grainy, untanned leather that was originally made from the hide of a Turkish wild ass called a shagri.
LJWorld.com stories: News Terry Kovel 2010
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A: Shagreen (not chagreen) is a grainy, untanned leather that was originally made from the hide of a Turkish wild ass called a shagri.
LJWorld.com stories: News Terry Kovel 2010
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» dependent by his riches, he devotes himself to servitude, and is tormented by chagreen.
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