damascus steel

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   a hard resilient steel often decorated and used for sword blades

   SynonymsDamask steel

   Broadersteel

Questions about damascus steel

What does damascus steel mean?

damascus steel means "a hard resilient steel often decorated and used for sword blades".

What is another word for damascus steel?

Close synonyms include Damask steel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is damascus steel a common word?

damascus steel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.