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Damascus steel   /dəmˈæskəs stil/   Listen
Damascus steel

noun
1.
A hard resilient steel often decorated and used for sword blades.  Synonym: Damask steel.






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"Damascus steel" Quotes from Famous Books



... fearless heart, and, if possible, vanquish and destroy them, even though they have for armour the shells of a certain fish, that they say are harder than diamonds, and in place of swords wield trenchant blades of Damascus steel, or clubs studded with spikes also of steel, such as I have more than once seen. All this I say, housekeeper, that you may see the difference there is between the one sort of knight and the other; and it would be well if there were no prince ...
— Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra



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