damask

See also: Damask

English

WOTD – 15 January 2010

Etymology

From Middle English damaske, from Medieval Latin damascus, named after the city Damascus, where the fabric was originally made.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdæm.əsk/

Noun

damask (countable and uncountable, 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. Linen so woven that a pattern is produced by the different directions of the thread, without contrast of colour.
3. A heavy woolen or worsted stuff with a pattern woven in the same way as the linen damask; made for furniture covering and hangings.
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     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.

4. Damascus steel; also, the peculiar markings or water of such steel.
5. A damask rose, .
6. A grayish-pink color, like that of the damask rose.

   damask:  

   • 1849, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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

Translations

fabric

• Arabic: فِرِنْد m (firind)
• Bulgarian: дамаска f (damaska)
• Catalan: domàs (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 緞子／缎子 (zh) (duànzi), 缎子 (zh) (duànzi)

• Czech: damašek m
• Danish: damask n
• Dutch: damast (nl) n
• Finnish: damasti (fi)
• French: damas (fr)
• German: Damast (de) m, Damastgewebe n
• Greek: δαμάσκο (el) n (damásko)
• Hungarian: damaszt (hu)
• Irish: damasc m
• Italian: damasco (it) m
• Japanese: 絢緞子 (あやどんす, ayadonsu)
• Kazakh: қамқа (qamqa)
• Macedonian: дамаст m (damast)
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• Norwegian: damask m
• Persian: پرنیان (fa) (parniyân), پرند (fa) (parand)
• Polish: adamaszek (pl) m
• Portuguese: damasco (pt) m
• Romanian: damasc (ro) n
• Russian: дама́ст m (damást), камка́ (ru) f (kamká)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: да̀маст m

  Roman: dàmast (sh) m

• Slovene: damast m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: damast m

• Spanish: damasco (es) m
• Swedish: damast (sv)
• Tatar: камка (tt) (qamka)
• Turkish: damasko (tr)
• Ukrainian: дамаст m (damast)

damask rose — see damask rose

colour

• Finnish: vaaleanpunainen (fi)
• French: lie-de-vin (fr)
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• Japanese: ばら色 (ばらいろ, barairo)
• Romanian: lie-de-vin

Damascus steel — see Damascus steel

The water or other diversified way marks of a sword, peculiar to Damascus steel swords

• Arabic: فِرِنْد m (firind)
• German: Damast (de) m
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• Persian: پرند (fa) (parand)

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: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

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

   • 1602, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

     But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, / Feed on her damask cheek

   • 1849, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

     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

colour

• Finnish: syvä vaaleanpunainen
• French: lie-de-vin (fr)
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• Greek: δαμασκηνί (el) n (damaskiní)
• Romanian: lie-de-vin

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

Derived terms

• damascene
• damask plum
• damask rose
• Damask steel

 

Translations

decorate or weave in damascene patterns

• Catalan: endomassar (ca), adomassar (ca)
• Italian: damascare
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• Portuguese: damasquinar
• Spanish: adamascar (es)

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

Anagrams

• kadams

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Danish

Etymology

From Italian damasco (“damask”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /damask/, [ˈd̥amasɡ̊]

Noun

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

1. damask

Further reading

• damask on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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Swedish

Noun

damask c

1. spat, gaiter

Declension

Declension of damask
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	damask	damasken	damasker	damaskerna
Genitive	damasks	damaskens	damaskers	damaskernas