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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 silk damask draperies and sumptuous beds felt opulent and a nice flourish to the end of the byway and a way to rest up before heading back to Seattle the next day.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2023

This vacant eye, listless hand, this damask cheek dusted like a doughnut with plastic powder, had to have a memory or a dream.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

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

Beneath their black bourkas glittered the sheen of their pistols and their damasked poniards.

From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by W. H. Davenport Adams

She glanced around at the high, quiet, damasked room.

From The Coast of Chance by Clarence F. Underwood

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


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