damask
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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
Cardinals wear similar clothes, but they can be distinguished by their more ornate damask pattern mitres, which look cream rather than white.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2025
Upstairs, the silk damask draperies, crystal chandeliers and sumptuous beds feel opulent and the rooms are simply huge.
From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2024
Opie’s backdrop is a damask drapery in dark green, red’s vivifying complementary color.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
He gave orders that a damask table-cloth should be draped over the ping-pong table, and in the end it looked really quite elegant after all.
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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There were flowers; there was painted and monogrammed china; there was Bohemian glass; there was silver of cunning work with linings of gold, and damasked linen, and oak of fantastic carving.
From Dr. Sevier by George Washington Cable
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
She glanced around at the high, quiet, damasked room.
From The Coast of Chance by Clarence F. Underwood
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