Definition of damasks in English

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Noun Plural: damasks
damask - a fabric of linen or cotton or silk or wool with a reversible pattern woven into it
		cloth, textile, fabric, material artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress"
damask - a table linen made from linen with a damask pattern
		napery, table linen linens for the dining table
Adjective damask, damasker, damaskest
damask - having a woven pattern; "damask table linens"
		fancy not plain; decorative or ornamented; "fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes"

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damask (n.)
Damask silk; silk woven with an elaborate pattern of flowers and the like.
damask (n.)
Linen so woven that a pattern in produced by the different directions of the thread, without contrast of color.
damask (n.)
A heavy woolen or worsted stuff with a pattern woven in the same way as the linen damask; -- made for furniture covering and hangings.
damask (n.)
Damask or Damascus steel; also, the peculiar markings or "water" of such steel.
damask (n.)
A deep pink or rose color.
damask (a.)
Pertaining to, or originating at, the city of Damascus; resembling the products or manufactures of Damascus.
damask (a.)
Having the color of the damask rose.
damask (v. t.)
To decorate in a way peculiar to Damascus or attributed to Damascus; particularly: (a) with flowers and rich designs, as silk; (b) with inlaid lines of gold, etc., or with a peculiar marking or "water," as metal. See Damaskeen.

damask
A figured fabric of silk, wool, linen, cotton, or synthetic fibers.
damask
Hard, flexible steel with wavy patterns that was popular in the Middle Ages especially for sword blades.

damask
dam′ask, n. figured stuff, originally of silk, now of linen, cotton, or wool, the figure being woven, not printed.—v.t. to flower or variegate, as cloth.—adj. of a red colour, like that of a damask rose.—v.t. Damaskeen′, to decorate metal (esp. steel) by inlaying or encrusting on it patterns like damask in other metals: to ornament with flowery patterns, to damask.—ns. Damaskeen′ing, Damasceen′ing, the watered or striated structure seen in certain sword-blades and other weapons: the ornamental incrustation with gold and silver of steel and iron surfaces; Damaskin′, a Damascus blade: a damaskeened blade; Dam′ask-plum, the damson; Dam′ask-rose, a species of pink-rose; Dam′ask-steel, Damascus steel; Dam′assin, damask with flowered patterns in gold or silver thread.—Damascus blade, a Damascus sword, the surface marked by wavy and variegating lines. [From Damascus, in Syria, where damask was orig. made.]