Lexicographical Neighbors of Damaskeening
Literary usage of Damaskeening
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians: Including Their Private Life by John Gardner Wilkinson (1837)
"It is uncertain whether the Egyptians possessed the art of damaskeening or inlaying
iron with gold, since, owing to the speedy decomposition of that metal, ..."
2. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1859)
"damaskeening, the art of ornamenting iron or steel by inlaying with gold, ...
The most beautiful method of damaskeening consists in cutting the metal deep ..."
3. The Techno-chemical Receipt Book: Containing Several Thousand Receipts by William Theodore Brannt, William Henry Wahl (1886)
"(W.) damaskeening STEEL. Genuine Damn.sk. Cut 8 sheets of steel 12 inches long,
1 inch wide, and fa inch thick. Now prepare 5 sheets of soft iron and 4 of ..."
4. Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians: Including Their Private Life by John Gardner Wilkinson (1842)
"It is uncertain whether the Egyptians possessed the art of damaskeening or inlaying
iron with gold, since, owing to the speedy decomposition of that metal, ..."
5. A Second Series of the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians ...by John Gardner Wilkinson by John Gardner Wilkinson (1841)
"damaskeening process, iii. 256, 257. Danaus, flight of, i. 58. Dance, attitudes
in, ii. 839. , forms of the, ii. 334. , mode of, ii. 339. ——, sacred, ii. ..."
6. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"[fc] Of or pertaining to the art of damaskeening, or to something made by ....
Wavy lines formed on metal by damaskeening, or lines similar in appearance. ..."
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