damask

English

WOTD – 15 January 2010    

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Damascus, where the fabric was originally made.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /ˈdæm.əsk/

Noun

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 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.

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.

Translations

fabric

• Bulgarian: дамаска (bg) f (damaska)
• Catalan: domàs (ca) m
• Danish: damask (da) n
• Finnish: damasti (fi)
• French: damas (fr)
• Hungarian: damaszt (hu)
• Irish: damasc (ga) m

• Italian: damasco (it) m
• Japanese: 絢緞子 (ja) (あやどんす, ayadonsu)
• Norwegian: damask (no) m
• Russian: дамаст (ru) (damást) m 
• Spanish: damasco (es) m
• Turkish: damasko (tr)

damask rose — see damask rose

colour

• Finnish: vaaleanpunainen (fi)
• French: lie-de-vin (fr)

• Japanese: ばら色 (ja) (ばらいろ, barairo)

Adjective

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

Translations

colour

• Finnish: syvä vaaleanpunainen (fi)

• French: lie-de-vin (fr)

Verb

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

1. To decorate or weave in damascene patterns

Translations

decorate or weave in damascene patterns

• Italian: damascare (it)

Derived terms

• damascene
• damask rose
• damask steel

See also

• (reds) red; 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, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}
• dornick
• kincob
• lampas

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Danish

Etymology

From Italian damasco (“damask”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /damask/, [ˈd̥amasɡ̊]

Noun

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

1. damask

External links

• Damask on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia

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Swedish

Noun

damask c

1. spat, gaiter

Declension

Declension of damask

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	damask	damasken	damasker	damaskerna
genitive	damasks	damaskens	damaskers	damaskernas