# Use and meaning of the word "damascene"

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**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [July 28, 2006, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-and-meaning-of-the-word-damascene/366365 "2006-07-28T04:49:14Z")
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### Author: ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2006, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-and-meaning-of-the-word-damascene/366365/21 "2006-07-28T21:58:45Z")

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> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#):
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> And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.  
> –_Acts 18:3_

Him and Omar Khayyam - by name, if not by actual profession.

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