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Apricot vs Damask - What's the difference?

apricot | damask |

As adjectives the difference between apricot and damask

is that apricot is of a pale yellowish-orange colour, like that of an apricot while damask is relating to, or originating at, the city of damascus.

As a noun apricot

is a round sweet and juicy stone fruit, resembling peach or plum in taste, with a yellow-orange flesh, lightly fuzzy skin and a large seed inside.

apricot

English

(wikipedia apricot) (Prunus armeniaca) (Prunus armeniaca)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A round sweet and juicy stone fruit, resembling peach or plum in taste, with a yellow-orange flesh, lightly fuzzy skin and a large seed inside.
  • The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca
  • A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit.
  • A dog with an orange-coloured coat.
  • the junction of the brain and brain stem on a target, used as an aiming point to ensure a one-shot kill.
  • (slang, usually in plural) A testicle.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of a pale yellowish-orange colour, like that of an apricot.
  • See also

    * lekvar *

    Anagrams

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    damask

    English

    (wikipedia damask)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An ornate silk fabric originating from Damascus.
  • :
  • *1836 , (Charles Dickens), (The Pickwick Papers)
  • *:but what struck Tom's fancy most was a strange, grim-looking, high backed chair, carved in the most fantastic manner, with a flowered damask cushion, and the round knobs at the bottom of the legs carefully tied up in red cloth, as if it had got the gout in its toes.
  • Linen so woven that a pattern is produced by the different directions of the thread, without contrast of colour.
  • A heavy woolen or worsted stuff with a pattern woven in the same way as the linen damask; made for furniture covering and hangings.
  • *
  • *:Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
  • Damascus steel; also, the peculiar markings or "water" of such steel.
  • A (damask rose), .
  • A grayish-pink color, like that of the damask rose.
  • :
  • *1849 , (Charles Dickens), (David Copperfield)
  • *:Thursday. D. certainly improved. Better night. Slight tinge of damask revisiting cheek.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of a grayish-pink color, like that of the damask rose.
  • * 1973 , (Stephen Sondheim),
  • My cage has many rooms / Damask and dark / Nothing there sings, / Not even my lark.
  • * 1602 , (William Shakespeare), (Twelfth Night)
  • But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, / Feed on her damask cheek
  • * 1849 , (Charles Dickens), (David Copperfield)
  • They had a lurking suspicion even, that he died of secret love; though I must say there was a picture of him in the house with a damask nose, which concealment did not appear to have ever preyed upon.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To decorate or weave in damascene patterns
  • Derived terms

    * damascene * damask plum * damask rose * Damask steel

    See also

    * * dornick * kincob * lampas ----