Lexicographical Neighbors of Damasking
Literary usage of Damasking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Book about Lawyers by John Cordy Jeaffreson (1867)
"ON damasking. A LTHOUGH English monarchs have usually had but one •£*• Great Seal
at a time, it has from time immemorial been customary to speak of the Lord ..."
2. Political and Statistical Account of the British Settlements in the Straits by Thomas John Newbold (1839)
"I annex an account of the several varieties of the kris, and of the process of
damasking, translated from a Malay MS. TRANSLATION OF MALAYAN MS. ..."
3. Malay Magic: Being an Introduction to the Folklore and Popular Religion of by Walter William Skeat (1900)
"... to which we are accustomed, being prepared in a peculiar way by a process of "
damasking " which produces a variety of designs on the roughened surface. ..."
4. A Treatise on the Progressive Improvement & Present State of the by Robert Hunt, John Holland (1853)
"damasking," says M. Savary, " partakes of the mosaic, of engraving, ... There We
two ways of damasking : the one which is the finest is where the metal is ..."
5. General Notions of Chemistry by Théophile Jules Pelouze, Edmond Fremy (1854)
"To give the appearance of damasking, the steel is rubbed with sulphate of iron
mixed with some sulphate of alumine. Damask steel, thus prepared, ..."
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