damask
See also: Damask
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Middle English damaske, from Medieval Latin damascus, named after the city Damascus, where the fabric was originally made.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK, General American) IPA(key): /ˈdæm.əsk/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]damask (countable and uncountable, plural damasks)
- An ornate silk fabric originating from Damascus.
- True damasks are pure silk.
- 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
- […] 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; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, 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.
- The peculiar markings or water of such steel.
- A damask rose, Rosa × damascena.
- A grayish-pink color, like that of the damask rose.
- damask:
- 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
- Thursday. D. certainly improved. Better night. Slight tinge of damask revisiting cheek.
Derived terms
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[edit]fabric
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type of linen
Damascus steel — see Damascus steel
peculiar markings on Damascus steel
damask rose — see damask rose
grayish-pink colour
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Adjective
[edit]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.
- c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, / Feed on her damask cheek
- 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
- 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.
Translations
[edit]colour
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Verb
[edit]damask (third-person singular simple present damasks, present participle damasking, simple past and past participle damasked)
- To decorate or weave in damascene patterns
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 19:
- Madame de Mercœur had herself arranged her dress, which was splendid white silk, damasked with silver flowers; but it was with much internal misgiving that she put on the graceful cap and plume.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]decorate or weave in damascene patterns
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See also
[edit]- (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, vermilion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine (Category: en:Reds)
- dornick
- kincob
- lampas
Anagrams
[edit]Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Italian damasco (“damask”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]damask n (singular definite damasket, not used in plural form)
Further reading
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Maltese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Italian damasco.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]damask m
- damask
- Damascus steel
Related terms
[edit]Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]damask c
Declension
[edit]Declension of damask
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