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Definition of Damask steel
1. Noun. A hard resilient steel often decorated and used for sword blades.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Damask Steel
Literary usage of Damask steel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A French-English Dictionary for Chemists by Austin McDowell Patterson (1921)
"de Damas, Damascus steel, damask steel. — de fonte, furnace steel. — de forge,
forge steel, fined steel. — de fusion, cast steel, ingot steel. ..."
2. Ures̓ Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear by Andrew Ure (1860)
"The production and use of damask steel has received much attention from the ...
and they state severally their conviction that the damask steel produced by ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"damask steel, or DAMASCUS STEEL, a steel with a peculiar watered or streaked ...
The art of producing damask steel has been generally practised in Oriental ..."
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