# damask
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English damaske, from Medieval Latin damascus, named after the city Damascus, where the fabric was originally made.

### Pronunciation

* (UK, General American) IPA: /ˈdæm.əsk/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

damask (countable and uncountable, plural damasks)
* An ornate silk fabric originating from Damascus.
    True damasks are pure silk.
** 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:[…] but what struck Tom's 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.
* Linen so woven that a pattern is produced by the different directions of the thread, without contrast of colour.
* A heavy woolen or worsted stuff with a pattern woven in the same way as the linen damask; made for furniture covering and hangings.
** 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016:Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
* Damascus steel.
* The peculiar markings or water of such steel.
* A damask rose, Rosa × damascena.
* A grayish-pink color, like that of the damask rose.
    damask:
** 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:Thursday. D. certainly improved. Better night. Slight tinge of damask revisiting cheek.

#### Derived terms

* satin damask

#### Translations
### Adjective

damask (comparative more damask, superlative most damask)
* Of a grayish-pink color, like that of the damask rose.
** 1973, Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street:My cage has many rooms / Damask and dark / Nothing there sings, / Not even my lark.
** c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, / Feed on her damask cheek
** 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC: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.

#### Translations
### Verb

damask (third-person singular simple present damasks, present participle damasking, simple past and past participle damasked)
* To decorate or weave in damascene patterns
** 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 19:Madame de Mercœur had herself arranged her dress, which was splendid white silk, damasked with silver flowers; but it was with much internal misgiving that she put on the graceful cap and plume.

#### Derived terms

* damascene
* damascone
* damask plum
* damask rose
* Damask steel
* damasky
* undamasked

#### Translations
### See also

* blood red
* brick red
* burgundy
* cardinal
* carmine
* carnation
* cerise
* cherry
* cherry red
* Chinese red
* cinnabar
* claret
* crimson
* damask
* fire brick
* fire engine red
* flame
* flamingo
* fuchsia
* garnet
* geranium
* gules
* hot pink
* incarnadine
* Indian red
* magenta
* maroon
* misty rose
* nacarat
* oxblood
* pillar-box red
* pink
* Pompeian red
* poppy
* raspberry
* red violet
* rose
* rouge
* ruby
* ruddy
* salmon
* sanguine
* scarlet
* shocking pink
* stammel
* strawberry
* Turkey red
* Venetian red
* vermilion
* vinaceous
* vinous
* violet red
* wine
* dornick
* kincob
* lampas

### Anagrams

* kadams

## Danish
### Etymology

From Italian damasco (“damask”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /damask/, [ˈd̥amasɡ̊]

### Noun

damask n (singular definite damasket, not used in plural form)
* damask

### Further reading

* damask on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{da}$

## Maltese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian damasco.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /daˈmask/

### Noun

damask m
* damask
* Damascus steel

#### Related terms

* damaskina (dumaskina, domaskina)
* ddamaska

## Swedish
### Noun

damask c
* spat, gaiter