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shagreen

[shuh-green] / ʃəˈgrin /
NOUN
patent leather
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The show’s sublime ensemble of his work illustrates how Frank’s clean lines are complemented by pale and pricey finishes of materials like parchment and shagreen.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

The Bay, from Los Angeles-based Made Goods, can be upholstered in a variety of fabrics — mohair, cotton velvet, shagreen — and colors, among them rosewater and turquoise.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2019

From May 28 to 31, the dealers are staging a sale exhibition of covetable jewelry—think flower brooches with shagreen petals—by Virginia Corm.

From Architectural Digest • May 20, 2015

Comers networked in an upper-deck dining area replete with oak, leather and shagreen.

From Forbes • Jun. 26, 2013

It was a shagreen leather pocketbook like those which well-to-do farmers carry, or rich English drovers that come to the cattle trysts to buy for the English market.

From Deep Moat Grange by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)