Damask rose

See also: damask rose

English

Noun

Damask rose (plural Damask roses)

Alternative letter-case form of damask rose.
- 1955 December, Lucy M[aria] Boston, “Christmas at ‘Green Knowe’”, in Jennie D[orothea] Lindquist, editor, The Horn Book Magazine of Books and Reading for Children and Young People, volume XXXI, number 6, Boston, Mass.: The Horn Book, Incorporated, →ISSN, page 471:
  Summer is literally breath-taking with the scent of Damask roses, but perhaps Christmas is its high time.
- 1992 February, Liz Druitt, G[eorge] Michael Shoup, “Old European Roses”, in Landscaping with Antique Roses (A Fine Gardening Book), Newtown, Conn.: The Taunton Press, →ISBN, page 131, column 1:
  ‘Celsiana’ is one of the Damask roses that forms a vigorous, upright bush 4 ft. or 5 ft. high, perfect for the back layer of a mixed flower border.
- 2002, Suhayl Saadi, “Paradise Gardens Carpet (for the National Museums of Scotland, 2002); Glasgow: Mantle of the Green Hollow”, in Bashabi Fraser, Alan Riach, editors, Thali Katori: An Anthology of Scottish & South Asian Poetry, Edinburgh: Luath Press Limited, published 2017, →ISBN, page 184:
  Stone pavilions striped in ochre, black and terracotta sheltered beneath mulberry trees, rock and leaf shadows, reflected in the uisge of tiny lochs, danced in the House of Joy that was the garden scent of Damask roses, […]
- 2008, Bertrice Small, chapter 7, in The Sorceress of Belmair (The World of Hetar; 4), Toronto, Ont.: HQN, →ISBN, page 177:
  The scent of Damask roses drifted in from his gardens on the warm air.