| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb damask.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (damask) | 1. 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.[Websters]. 2. Base verb from the following inflections: damasking, damasked, damasks, damasker, damaskers, damaskingly and damaskedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "DAMASKING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: damask
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] A silk stuff, having some parts raised above the ground, representing flowers and other figures; originally from Damascus.. | 2: [Noun] A kind of wrought linen, made in Flanders, in imitation of damask silks.. | 3: [Noun] Red color, from the damask-rose. Damask-steel, is a fine steel from the Levant, chiefly from Damascus, used for sword and cutlas blades.. | 4: [Verb] To form flowers on stuffs; also, to variegate; to diversify; as, a bank damasked with flowers.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Geography | 1: Damask is geographically located in Nigeria. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 13.105 degrees North latitude and 12.506667 degrees East longitude. (references) | 2: Damask is geographically located in Ukraine. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 50 degrees North latitude and 34.35 degrees East longitude. (references) | |
| Industry | Tightly woven fabric. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Metallurgy | The etched or watered surface produced on polished steel, by corrosion. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Wikipedic | Damask is a fabric of silk, wool, linen, cotton, or synthetic fibers, with a pattern formed by weaving. The term originally referred to ornamental silk fabrics from Damascus, which were elaborately woven in colours, sometimes with the addition of gold and other metallic threads. Today, it generally denotes a linen texture richly figured in the weaving with flowers, fruit, forms of animal life, and other types of ornament. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Adjective] (color) of a grayish-pink color, like that of the damask rose. (references) | 2: [Noun] (color) A grayish-pink color, like that of the damask rose. . (references) | 3: [Noun] An ornate silk fabric originating from Damascus. True damasks are pure silk. (references) | 4: [Noun] For the damask rose. (references) | 5: [Noun] The facial colour which is the colour of the damask rose. (references) |
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Common Expressions: damask
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Damask color | A deep rose-color like that of the damask rose. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Damask plum | A small dark-colored plum, generally called damson. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Damask rose | 1: (Bot.), a large, pink, hardy, and very fragrant variety of rose (Rosa damascena) from Damascus. ``Damask roses have not been known in England above one hundred years.'' --Bacon. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: Large hardy very fragrant pink rose; cultivated in Asia Minor as source of attar of roses; parent of many hybrids. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Damask steel | 1: Steel of the kind originally made at Damascus, famous for its hardness, and its beautiful texture, ornamented with waving lines; especially, that which is inlaid with damaskeening; -- formerly much valued for sword blades, from its great flexibility and tenacity. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: A hard resilient steel often decorated and used for sword blades. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Damask violet | Long cultivated herb having flowers whose scent is more pronounced in the evening; naturalized throughout Europe to Siberia and into North America. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: damask
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Damask Linen | Literature | So called from Damascus, where it was originally manufactured. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Damask Rose | Slang in 1811 | 1: To dream of seeing a damask rosebush in full foliage and bloom, denotes that a wedding will soon take place in your family, and great hopes will be fulfilled. 2: For a lover to place this rose in your hair, foretells that you will be deceived. If a woman receives a bouquet of damask roses in springtime, she will have a faithful lover; but if she received them in winter, she will cherish blasted hopes. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... | |
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| Damask (alternative meanings) | 2 | Damask (alternative meanings) | 2 | |
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