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damask

[dam-uhsk] / ˈdæm əsk /


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Across the landing, the Yellow Room also boasts expensive furnishings, especially the bed, which is covered in bright yellow damask, re-creating a bed Washington acquired in 1758.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 7, 2026

And by 09:00, patriarchs and cardinals will congregate in Saint Sebastian Chapel, in the basilica, wearing white damask miters.

From BBC Apr. 22, 2025

Opie’s backdrop is a damask drapery in dark green, red’s vivifying complementary color.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 31, 2024

The current exhibit piece, Seattle-based Hungarian artist Timea Tihanyi’s “Like Love,” continues through the end of August, and features a deconstructed damask tablecloth adorned with hands in honor of Hungarian embroidery work.

From Seattle Times Aug. 2, 2022

We looked around the gentlemen’s smoking room to see if a cat’s eyes glowed from under the furniture, behind the damask drapes.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

Much of the furniture - Empire style - is what she acquired, as are the silk damasks on the walls.

From BBC Oct. 19, 2014

A double is about 430 square feet, but small rooms are counterbalanced by refined interiors, featuring color-coordinated damasks on the beds and armchairs and fine antique wood tables mixed with Lucite ones.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her gardens are full of roses—sprawling, old tangled bushes, quite a few of them autumn-flowering damasks with their last flowers still nodding and drooping in the rain.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

When she opened it, she found piles of the finest velvets and damasks the Free Cities could produce . . . and resting on top, nestled in the soft cloth, three huge eggs.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

He had never seen the eunuch dress in anything but silk and velvet and the richest damasks, and this man smelled of sweat instead of lilacs.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

For each of the hobbits he chose a dagger, long, leaf-shaped, and keen, of marvellous workmanship, damasked with serpent-forms in red and gold.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

He picked out from the pile of grim weapons two knives, leaf-bladed, damasked in gold and red; and searching further he found also the sheaths, black, set with small red gems.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

Strolling outside the damasked tabernacle, I saw some servants who were preparing beverages and refreshments with a mighty bustle.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi

The texture of her sleeve against his was less tangible than the light breeze that puffed idly from the south to where they sat enraptured upon the damasked English grass.

From Plashers Mead A Novel by Compton MacKenzie

“What’s the matter?” cried Steve, for the Norseman suddenly raised his spy-glass and directed it eastward, where the sea looked to be one dazzling sheen of damasked silver.

From Steve Young by George Manville Fenn




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