Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A silk textile with an elaborate design, usually of floral pattern. In some cases the pattern is raised in velvet pile upon the satin ground.
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Examples
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The great chair, sumptuous with satin-damask and soft with springs, almost engulfed the tiny figure of the little old lady.
Across the Years 1894
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It was a cheerless, gray December morning that John Wetherby came into his mother's room and found a sob-shaken little figure in the depths of the sumptuous, satin-damask chair.
Across the Years 1894
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We need scarcely say it was that terrible room -- the best; with three creaking, ill-fitting windows, and heavy crimson satin-damask furniture, so old as scarcely to be able to sustain its own weight.
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833
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