damask
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English damaske, from Medieval Latin damascus, named after the city Damascus, where the fabric was originally made.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
damask (countable and uncountable, plural damasks)
- An ornate silk fabric originating from Damascus.
- True damasks are pure silk.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, OCLC 7780546; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., 55 Fifth Avenue, [1933], OCLC 2666860, page 0016:
- 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; also, the peculiar markings or "water" of such steel.
- A damask rose, Rosa × damascena.
- A grayish-pink color, like that of the damask rose.
- damask colour:
- 1849, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
- Thursday. D. certainly improved. Better night. Slight tinge of damask revisiting cheek.
TranslationsEdit
fabric
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damask rose — see damask rose
colour
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AdjectiveEdit
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
TranslationsEdit
colour
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VerbEdit
damask (third-person singular simple present damasks, present participle damasking, simple past and past participle damasked)
Derived termsEdit
Derived terms
TranslationsEdit
decorate or weave in damascene patterns
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See alsoEdit
- (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
AnagramsEdit
DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Italian damasco (“damask”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
damask n (singular definite damasket, not used in plural form)
Further readingEdit
damask on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
