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

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

From Seattle Times • Aug. 5, 2023

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