damask

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It shows only the spread of snow-white damask, the shining silver plate, the steel of Sheffield, the ware of Sevres or Worcester, with the usual array of cut-glasses and decanters.

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  1. noun A rich patterned fabric of cotton, linen, silk, or wool.
  2. noun A fine, twilled table linen.
  3. noun Damascus steel.
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  • She was working a large ornamental H upon a set of face-towels for Carmona—the material a fine damask, and the design and stitchery really exquisite. —  Out of the Past - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 23: 1953
  • The fireplace was surrounded with loops of the same yellow damask, and the bed, the focusing point, the rococo pièce de résistance of the whole room, was befrilled and befurbelowed until its original shape was lost altogether. —  Police at the Funeral - Margery Allingham - Campion 04: 1931
  • She was stretched out on a divan upholstered in green-and-gold striped damask, her face blotchy from weeping, her ankle propped on a bolster and swollen to twice its normal size. —  ONE NIGHT OF SCANDAL
  • They were of a handsome golden brown damask, a shade lighter than the woodwork. —  The Chinese Shawl - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 05
  • It was hung with drapery of rich yellow satin damask, the couches, sofas, and chairs being covered with the same material. —  Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum
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  1. Middle English, Damascus, damask, from Latin Damascus, from Greek Damaskos.

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  1. from Middle English damaske = Middle Dutch damasck, damast, Dutch damast = Middle Low German damask = late Middle High German damasch, dammas, German dammast, now damast = Swedish Danish damask, Danish also damast (the form damast, in D., G., etc., being from the Italian damasto) = Old French F. damas = Spanish Portuguese damasco = Italian damasco, also damasto, from Middle Latin damascus (also damacius and damasticus; sc. L. pannus), damask, so called from the city of Damascus, where the fabric was orig. made: see damascus, and cf. damaskeen, damascene. As an adjective, def. 3, directly from Damascus.
  2. = Middle Low German damasken = German damasten = French damasser = Spanish Portuguese damascar (in past participle damascado) = Italian damascare, damask; from the noun. Cf. damaskeen.
 

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