Damascene
adjective
of or relating to the city of Damascus.
Damascened
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past tense formof Damascene.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
damascened
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past participleof Damascene.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
Damasceneadjectiveof or relating to the city of Damascus.
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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 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
The barrel was damascened in gold, and the stock was fine Italian walnut inlaid with mother of pearl.
From Caribbee by Thomas Hoover
The material is a composition of Inc, tin, and lead, in which ornaments of gold and silver are inlaid o? damascened.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
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
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
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
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
