damaskin

Compare French damasquin (adjective). See damaskeen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdæməskɪn/

damaskin (plural damaskins)

1. (obsolete) A sword of Damascus steel.
   • 1655, James Howell, “The Vote”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:

     No old Toledo blades or damaskins.

damaskin (third-person singular simple present damaskins, present participle damaskining, simple past and past participle damaskined)

1. Alternative form of damascene.

• “damaskin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• maskandi

damaskin

1. genitive singular of damaski