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damask
English
Etymology
From Middle English damaske, from Medieval Latin damascus, named after the city Damascus, where the fabric was originally made.
Pronunciation
- (UK, General American) IPA(key): /?dæm.?sk/
Noun
damask (countable and uncountable, plural damasks)
- An ornate silk fabric originating from Damascus.
- 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
- […] but what struck Tom's fancy most was a strange, grim-looking, high backed chair, carved in the most fantastic manner, with a flowered damask cushion, and the round knobs at the bottom of the legs carefully tied up in red cloth, as if it had got the gout in its toes.
- 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
- Linen so woven that a pattern is produced by the different directions of the thread, without contrast of colour.
- A heavy woolen or worsted stuff with a pattern woven in the same way as the linen damask; made for furniture covering and hangings.
- Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
- Damascus steel
- The peculiar markings or water of such steel.
- A damask rose, Rosa × damascena.
- A grayish-pink color, like that of the damask rose.
- 1849, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
- Thursday. D. certainly improved. Better night. Slight tinge of damask revisiting cheek.
- 1849, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
Translations
Adjective
damask (comparative more damask, superlative most damask)
- Of a grayish-pink color, like that of the damask rose.
- 1973, Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- My cage has many rooms / Damask and dark / Nothing there sings, / Not even my lark.
- 1602, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
- But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, / Feed on her damask cheek
- 1849, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
- They had a lurking suspicion even, that he died of secret love; though I must say there was a picture of him in the house with a damask nose, which concealment did not appear to have ever preyed upon.
- 1973, Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Translations
Verb
damask (third-person singular simple present damasks, present participle damasking, simple past and past participle damasked)
- To decorate or weave in damascene patterns
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine (Category: en:Reds)
- dornick
- kincob
- lampas
Anagrams
- kadams
Danish
Etymology
From Italian damasco (“damask”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /damask/, [?d?amas??]
Noun
damask n (singular definite damasket, not used in plural form)
- damask
Further reading
- damask on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Swedish
Noun
damask c
- spat, gaiter
Declension
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damascus
English
Noun
damascus (uncountable)
- Ellipsis of Damascus steel
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