damask

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A rich patterned fabric of cotton, linen, silk, or wool.
2. n. A fine, twilled table linen.
3. n. Damascus steel.
4. n. The wavy pattern on Damascus steel.
5. v. To damascene.
6. v. To decorate or weave with rich patterns.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A textile fabric woven in elaborate patterns. A rich fabric of coarse silk threads woven in figures of many colors: a manufacture which has been long established in Syria, and has frequently been imitated in Europe.
2. n. A pink color like that of the damask rose; a highly luminous crimson red reduced in chroma, and not appearing to incline to either orange or purple.
3. n. Same as damaskeening, 2.
4. n. Wavy lines shown on metal, formed by damaskeening.
5. Woven with figures, like damask: used of textile fabrics, usually linen: as, damask table-cloths. See I., 1.
6. Of a pink color like that of the damask rose.
7. Of, pertaining to, or originating in Damascus: as, the damask plum, rose, steel, violet: see below.
8. To ornament (a metal) with flowers or patterns on the surface, especially by the application of another metal. See damaskeen.
9. To variegate; diversify.
10. To deface or destroy by tamping or marking: as, to damask seditious books.

Wiktionary

1. n. An ornate silk fabric originating from Damascus.
2. n. A damask rose.
3. n. A grayish-pink color, like that of the damask rose.
4. adj. Of a grayish-pink color, like that of the damask rose.
5. v. To decorate or weave in damascene patterns

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Damask silk; silk woven with an elaborate pattern of flowers and the like.
2. n. Linen so woven that a pattern in produced by the different directions of the thread, without contrast of color.
3. n. A heavy woolen or worsted stuff with a pattern woven in the same way as the linen damask; -- made for furniture covering and hangings.
4. n. Damask or Damascus steel; also, the peculiar markings or “water” of such steel.
5. n. A deep pink or rose color.
6. adj. Pertaining to, or originating at, the city of Damascus; resembling the products or manufactures of Damascus.
7. adj. Having the color of the damask rose.
8. v. To decorate in a way peculiar to Damascus or attributed to Damascus; particularly: (a) with flowers and rich designs, as silk; (b) with inlaid lines of gold, etc., or with a peculiar marking or “water,” as metal. See damaskeen.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a fabric of linen or cotton or silk or wool with a reversible pattern woven into it
2. n. a table linen made from linen with a damask pattern
3. adj. having a woven pattern