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dam⋅ask

  [dam-uhsk]
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–noun
1. a reversible fabric of linen, silk, cotton, or wool, woven with patterns.
2. napery of this material.
3. Metallurgy.
a. Also called damask steel. Damascus steel.
b. the pattern or wavy appearance peculiar to the surface of such steel.
4. the pink color of the damask rose.
–adjective
5. made of or resembling damask: damask cloth.
6. of the pink color of the damask rose.
–verb (used with object)
7. to damascene.
8. to weave or adorn with elaborate design, as damask cloth.
Origin:
1200–50; ME damaske < ML damascus, named after Damascus where fabrics were first made
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Damascus steel

 
–noun
hand-wrought steel, made in various Asian countries, from parts of a bloom of heterogeneous composition, repeatedly folded over and welded and finally etched to reveal the resulting grain: used esp. for sword blades.
Also called damask, damask steel.

Origin:
1720–30
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dam·ask   (dām'əsk)   
n.  

  1. A rich patterned fabric of cotton, linen, silk, or wool.

  2. A fine, twilled table linen.

  3. Damascus steel.

  4. The wavy pattern on Damascus steel.

tr.v.   dam·asked, dam·ask·ing, dam·asks

  1. To damascene.

  2. To decorate or weave with rich patterns.


[Middle English, Damascus, damask, from Latin Damascus, from Greek Damaskos.]
dam'ask adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

damask 
c.1250, Damaske "cloth from Damascus," the Syrian city, famous in medieval times for steel and silk, from Gk. Damaskos, from Ar. Dimashq.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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damask

patterned textile, deriving its name from the fine patterned fabrics produced in Damascus (Syria) in the European Middle Ages. True damask was originally wholly of silk, but gradually the name came to be applied to a certain type of patterned fabric regardless of fibre. Single damask has one set each of warps and wefts, or fillings, and may be woven in one or two colours; compound or double damask has a greater number of fillings. Damask is woven on a Jacquard loom, the satin field being produced by floats of warp that pass over from two to seven and in some instances nine fillings. The design is a plain or taffeta weave, the warp and filling being at right angles that create less lustre than the satin areas

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