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
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
The men were armed with spears, some carrying bows and arrows, the chief alone having an old Spanish long-barrelled fowling piece, damascened with gold.
From The Ruined Cities of Zululand by Hugh Mulleneux Walmsley
The locks of this description of chest are of steel, and are sometimes richly damascened.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various
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
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
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
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
