damask steel

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   a hard resilient steel often decorated and used for sword blades

   SynonymsDamascus steel

   Broadersteel

Questions about damask steel

What does damask steel mean?

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

What is another word for damask steel?

Close synonyms include Damascus 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 damask steel a common word?

damask 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.