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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as damaskeening.

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  • Jeweling, also called damascening or engine turning, came into vogue on firearms in the first half of the 20th Century, the glory years of the custom rifle. ...

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  • Metal Jeweling Jeweling, also called damascening or engine turning, came into vogue on firearms in the first half of the 20th ...

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  • Metal Jeweling Jeweling, also called damascening or engine turning, came into vogue on firearms in the first half of the 20th ...

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  • She was reared with her father and mother in honour and indulgence and learnt rhetoric and penmanship and arithmetic and cavalarice and all manner crafts, such as broidery and sewing and weaving and girdle-making and silk-cord making and damascening gold on silver and silver on gold, brief all the arts both of men and women, till she became the union-pearl of her time and the unique gem of her age and day.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Some traces of checkering on stock and damascening on barrel, otherwise plain.

    A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms and Edged Weapons at "Restless Oaks" Henry W. Shoemaker

  • But when one considers the pains and labour expended upon the arts of damascening and niello, one regrets that the workers had not been inspired to attempt dentistry, and save so much unnecessary individual suffering!

    Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison

  • Here also, as in Fig. 44, we have that curious and beautiful pattern, resembling somewhat the damascening on ancient Oriental swords, or that which is seen upon watered silk or _moire antique_.

    Thought-Forms Annie Wood Besant 1890

  • COUCHED OUTLINE WORK; only an occasional detail worked solid; suggests damascening.

    Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery Mary Buckle 1877

  • In fact, just as outline work in simple gold thread resembles damascening or filagree, so this outlining of little spaces of coloured silk suggests enamel.

    Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery Mary Buckle 1877

  • Illustration 59, part of an Italian housing, which reminds one both in effect and in design of damascening, to which it is in some respects equivalent; only, instead of gold and silver wire beaten into black iron or steel, we have gold and silver thread sewn on to dark velvet.

    Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery Mary Buckle 1877

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