{"id":17558,"date":"2018-08-14T22:44:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T05:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=17558"},"modified":"2018-08-14T22:44:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T05:44:16","slug":"shagreen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2018\/08\/14\/shagreen\/","title":{"rendered":"shagreen"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>My dictionary says that <i>shagreen<\/i> is a kind of untanned leather (by which it presumably means <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rawhide_(material)\">rawhide<\/a>), or \u201cthe rough skin of various sharks and rays.\u201d Wikipedia says that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shagreen\">shagreen<\/a> is a kind of rawhide, from a horse or a shark or a ray. (I\u2019m paraphrasing.)<\/p>\r\n<p>Both indicate that the word derives from the French word <i>chagrin<\/i>.<\/p>\r\n<p>The word has been around in English for centuries, but somehow I don\u2019t think I had ever encountered it before.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17559,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17558\/revisions\/17559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}