Definizione monolingua

damask

damask (third-person singular simple present damasks, present participle damasking, simple past and past participle damasked)

1. To decorate or weave in damascene patterns

damask (plural damasks)

1. An ornate silk fabric originating from Damascus.

   True damasks are pure silk.

   • 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers

     […] but what struck Toms 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.

2. A damask rose.
3. A grayish-pink color, like that of the damask rose.

   damask colour:

   • 1849, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

     Thursday. D. certainly improved. Better night. Slight tinge of damask revisiting cheek.

damask (comparative more damask, superlative most damask)

1. Of a grayish-pink color, like that of the damask rose.
   • 1973, Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd

     My cage has many rooms / Damask and dark / Nothing there sings, / Not even my lark.

   • 1602: But let concealment, like a worm i the bud, / Feed on her damask cheek — William Shakespeare, Twlefth Night
   • 1849: 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. — Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

Definizione dizionario damask

	damasco
	fabric
	A figured fabric of silk, wool, linen, cotton, or synthetic fibers.

Altri significati:

To decorate or weave in damascene patterns

An ornate silk fabric originating from Damascus.

A grayish-pink color, like that of the damask rose.

damask colour:

Hard, flexible steel with wavy patterns that was popular in the Middle Ages especially for sword blades.

colour

A damask rose.

Of a grayish-pink color, like that of the damask rose.