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
When it comes to images, there are few Damascene moments, which is why most photojournalists are modest, if not pessimistic, about the influence of their work.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2022
Still Silence reigned:—a keen silence more piercing than the sharpest Damascene blade.
From A Book of Quaker Saints by L. V. (Lucy Violet) Hodgkin
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
There is much variety in the blades, handles and sheaths of those weapons, real native damascene blades costing considerable sums.
From Across the Equator A Holiday Trip in Java by Thomas H. Reid
Emeralds, milky pearls Plucked from blue seas, Footfall of silken girls— Such for their ease; Shimmer and silken sheen, Jewel and maid— These but the damascene Chasing the blade!
From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 23, 1914 by Various
The moon wrought upon the vapors a shifting damascene; and far behind, as it seemed, a rufous stain showed where the candles in his room were still alight.
From Plashers Mead A Novel by Compton MacKenzie
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
One of these niches was silently guarded by two carved figures of horsemen with their white steeds caparisoned, and each of the riders held in his uplifted hand a sword such as the Damascenes use.
From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by George Newnes
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Slowly General Prince slid the sabre from the scabbard, and bent forward, studying an inscription upon the damascened steel itself.
From The Tempering by Charles Neville Buck
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
The Romans, who made much furniture of bronze, cast, inlaid, damascened and gilt, made much more in wood, which they stained, polished, carved, and inlaid.
From British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. by L. Arnoux
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