shagreen

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ʃəˈɡɹiːn/

Noun

countable uncountable

An untanned leather, often dyed green; originally made from horse skin, today mostly made from the skin of a shark or ray. / (entomology) A rough or spiny surface of an insect's cuticle.

Japanese Meaning

生革の一種。一般に加工されず、そのままの状態で用いられ、しばしば緑色に染色される。元々は馬の皮を使用して作られ、現在では主にサメやエイの皮が利用される。 / （昆虫学）昆虫の外骨格に見られる、粗くまたはトゲ状の表面。

What is this buttons?

The artisan polished a small case made of shagreen until it gleamed under the lamp.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

職人は、しばしば緑色に染められる未なめしの革でできた小さなケースをランプの下で輝くまで磨いた。

Details

Sense（1）

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.

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