Damascene
adjective
of or relating to the city of Damascus.
Damascene
American
[dam-uh-seen, dam-uh-seen]
/ ˈdæm əˌsin, ˌdæm əˈsin /
adjective
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of or relating to the city of Damascus.
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(lowercase) of or relating to the art of damascening.
noun
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an inhabitant of Damascus.
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(lowercase) work or patterns produced by damascening.
verb (used with object)
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Damascenes,
present (3rd person singular)
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Damascened,
past
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damascened,
past participle
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Damascening
present participle
Damascene
1
British
/ ˌdæməˈsiːn, ˈdæməˌsiːn /
adjective
noun
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a native or inhabitant of Damascus
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a variety of domestic fancy pigeon with silvery plumage
damascene
2
British
/ ˌdæməˈsiːn, ˈdæməˌsiːn /
verb
noun
adjective
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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Damascenesimple
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Damascenessimple
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have damascenedperfect
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has damascenedperfect
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am Damasceningprogressive
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are Damasceningprogressive
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is Damasceningprogressive
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have been Damasceningperfect progressive
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has been Damasceningperfect progressive
Past
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Damascenedsimple
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had damascenedperfect
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was Damasceningprogressive
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were Damasceningprogressive
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had been Damasceningperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of Damascene
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin Damascēnus of Damascus < Greek Damaskēnós, equivalent to Damask ( ós ) Damascus + -ēnos -ene
Vocabulary lists containing damascene
Example Sentences
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It’s not quite a Damascene conversion, but he’s certainly much more open to the technology’s upside potential.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 27, 2026
And the agnostic, for whom “True Haunting” could prove a Damascene moment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025
Many others were forced back to Yarmouk by sheer economics, including Wael Oweymar, a 50-year-old interior contractor who returned in 2021 because he could no longer afford rent in other Damascene suburbs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2025
At Buuzecedi, a famous Damascene restaurant, men in bomber jackets sat at small, close-set tables, hunched over tea and falafel.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2022
John Damascene thought to repair the injury which this anecdote might do to Mary's reputation, by saying that the name of Bar-Panther was hereditary in the family of Mary, and consequently in that of Joseph.
From Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Paul Henry Thiry Baron d' Holbach
While there, she had an epiphany about pursuing an acting career in a damascene moment involving a low-lying mountain that she glimpsed from a road.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2021
High winds from the south laid the grass flat all day, turning it to a dull, damascene silver.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
Ornamental iron and damascene work holds the high reputation which Spain has never lost, but the output is very largely increased.
From Spanish Life in Town and Country by William Harbutt Dawson
The same skill of hand and eye was seen in the shops of Kyoto where damascene ware is made.
From The Critic in the Orient by George Hamlin Fitch
The surgeon dropped his plate, full of damascene tart, on the deck.
From The King's Own by Frederick Marryat
For many Damascenes, the dominant feelings are a mix of joy and trepidation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2024
Loveday Morris and Ahmed Ramadan report from Beirut: While potential options for military intervention were debated in the West, Damascenes did what little they could to prepare.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2013
The fighter plane was the victim of a "Soviet SAM," as Damascenes call their wonder weapon.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ending the first sequence in the latest round of shuttle diplomacy in Damascus last week, Kissinger was hailed by Damascenes as "al mu'allim," literally the boss who makes things happen.
From Time Magazine Archive
The women of Baalbec are esteemed the handsomest of the neighbouring country, and many Damascenes marry Baalbec girls.
From Travels in Syria and the Holy Land by John Lewis Burckhardt
Among the things brought down from Alta Vista was an exquisite little dagger with a Damascened blade, which I gave to Angela.
From Mr. Fortescue An Andean Romance by William Westall
Its space was generous, broken here and there by piles of ebony furniture, inlaid with pearl; pieces of Saracenic armor, Damascened bucklers, and all the gear too large for the narrow confines below.
From The Lighted Match by R. F. Schabelitz
Damascened armor, encrusted with jewels, girdled the chest of the Asiatic Prince; helmeted the sullen head carved from a single immensity of ivory.
From Zero Data by Charles Saphro
Shops have been 280 promptly opened for a holiday sale of the Toledo specialties—arabesqued swords and daggers, every variety of Damascened wares, and marchpane in form of mimic hams, fish, and serpents.
From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates
The only luxurious touch in the strange place was afforded by a richly Damascened curtain, draped before a recess at the farther end.
From The Sins of Séverac Bablon by Sax Rohmer
He endowed the gold damascened parade armor of Emmanuel Philiberto of Savoy with a density of inspection that makes you feel you could lift it off the canvas if the prince were not wearing it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Leonardo da Vinci and Cellini for helmet designs and devices that were etched, gilded, embossed and damascened on the steel plate.
From Time Magazine Archive
From head to foot he was covered with armor damascened in gold.
From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Eug?ne Sue
As he indulged in these painful reflections, his eyes became fixed on the skies, already damascened with black clouds.
From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 by Various
The steel was elaborately damascened with a most beautiful and intricate pattern in gold, and altogether the weapon so irresistibly took my fancy that I unhesitatingly appropriated it forthwith.
From The Log of a Privateersman by W. (William) Rainey
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