English edit

Etymology edit

From French damas. See damask.

Noun edit

damassin (usually uncountable, plural damassins)

  1. A kind of modified damask or brocade, having flowered patterns in gold or silver thread.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for damassin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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