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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

After the service, Francis's body — dressed in a red chasuble and a damask and golden papal mitre — will be transported to the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome for burial.

From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2024

The damask tablecloth didn’t come until relatively late: the 12th century.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 5, 2023

Folding tables were hurried out while hot foods were rushed forth and plates and fine damask napkins and good silverware were laid.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

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

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

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

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

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

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

The lower half of its three lancets each contains a figure on a white background bearing an etched damasked pattern, bordered richly in gold.

From Stained Glass Tours in France by Charles Hitchcock Sherrill

In other places the rock was damasked like a Saracen buckler, or engraved like a Florentine vase.

From Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo

In accordance with the conventions, each niche has at the back a damasked curtain, above which a glimpse is afforded of an interior lighted by three windows, all very delicately portrayed.

From Stained Glass Tours in France by Charles Hitchcock Sherrill