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damask | embroidery |

As an adjective damask

is relating to, or originating at, the city of damascus.

As a noun embroidery is

the ornamentation of fabric using needlework.

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 ----

    embroidery

    English

    (wikipedia embroidery)

    Noun

    (embroideries)
  • The ornamentation of fabric using needlework.
  • A piece of embroidered fabric.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=15 citation , passage=‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’}}
  • The elaboration of an account etc. with details, especially when fictitious.