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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To decorate (metal) with wavy patterns of inlay or etching.
  2. n. Metalwork decorated with wavy patterns of inlay or etching.
  3. adj. Of or relating to damascening.
  4. adj. Of or relating to damask.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Of or pertaining to the city of Damascus, anciently and still the capital of Syria, and under the Ommiad califs capital of the Mohammedan empire, long celebrated for its works in steel. See damascus.
  2. [lowercase] Of or pertaining to the art of damaskeening, or to something made by that process.
  3. The style of work displayed in the artistic watered-steel blades for which the city of Damascus is celebrated. The variegated color of these blades is due to the crystallization of cast-steel highly charged with carbon, an effect produced by a careful process of cooling. The phrase is also applied to ornaments slightly etched on a steel surface, and also to other surfaces of similar appearance, as, for example, to an etched surface of metallic iron.
  4. n. An inhabitant or a native of the city of Damascus.
  5. n. [L. Damascena, ⟨ Gr. Δαμασκηνή, the region about Damascus, prop. fem. of the adj.] The district in which Damascus is situated.
  6. n. [lowercase] Same as damson.
  7. Same as damaskeen.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. inlaid with silver or gold

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Of or relating to Damascus.
  2. n. A kind of plum, now called damson. See damson.
  3. v. Same as damask, or damaskeen, v. t.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. inlay metal with gold and silver
  2. adj. of or relating to or characteristic of Damascus or its people
  3. n. a design produced by inlaying gold or silver into steel
  4. n. a native or inhabitant of Damascus
  5. adj. (of metals) decorated or inlaid with a wavy pattern of different (especially precious) metals

Etymologies

  1. French damasquiner, from damasquin, of Damascus, from Latin Damascēnus, from Greek Damaskēnos, from Damaskos, Damascus. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • “Born out of a damascene conversion to ecstasy, acid house, and portable sampling technology, Screamadelica allowed the band and producer Andrew Weatherall to create open-ended pieces that could sit comfortably alongside the experimental music of the past, but also find a home in the new dance culture.”

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  • “For every CEO who has a damascene conversion and transforms or builds their business along ethical lines think Anita Roddick of the Body Shop there are thousands who don't.”

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  • “Never had a musical damascene moment _ sounds elusive, like the female orgasm ...”

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  • “Had some nice conversations in the hall outside the dealers 'room anyway, then went off for an early dinner with damascene and other East Coasters at the hotel's fancy restaurant.”

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  • “I chatted with damascene and others, to the lobby where”

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  • “He too - like Orwell until he had a damascene conversion - was a conscientious objector to the second world war.”

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  • “And if you peer between the razzle-dazzle of jewels to the metalwork, you find a wealth of design and technique, from engraving to damascene gold to the openwork carving on two 17th-century ceremonial maces.”

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  • “But nothing tops the platinum-handled damascene razor by Hommage, which resembles the tool used by Sweeney Todd, and features 4,500 layers of handcrafted steel ($30,000; hommage. com).”

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  • “They opened one of these and found it full of weapons curiously adorned with open work and with gold and silver damascene and jewels.”

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