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
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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
On one of the hottest days in the Damascene summer, his words interrupted by the occasional argument between other vexed patrons, Elias spoke while his eyes remained fixated on the front of the slow-moving queue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 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
The passage is preserved in John Damascene, De imaginibus, book iii.
From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Alexander Van Millingen
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
A shoal darts out, some all old-gold, some green with yellow damascene tracery and long yellow filaments floating from the lower lip.
From Confessions of a Beachcomber by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
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
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
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
In a cruel but effective bit of psychological warfare, Israeli Arab-language radio broadcasts taunted Damascenes, telling them to close the shutters on their houses and hang out white flags.
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
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
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
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
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
The wavy, flame-like blade is veined with gold, and its dull silvery surface is damascened with as much care as was ever taken with the old swords of Damascus.
From Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines by Rounsevelle Wildman
He threw off his crimson cloak with an impatient gesture, and suddenly shone forth in a dazzling array of steel breast-plate and chain armour, all worked and damascened with gold.
From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
These rare examples of the English cutler's and ivory carver's art, dated 1607, have blades damascened with gold.
From Chats on Household Curios by Fred. W. (Frederick William) Burgess
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