DAMASK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does damask mean? 

• DAMASK (noun)
  The noun DAMASK has 2 senses:

1. a table linen made from linen with a damask pattern

2. a fabric of linen or cotton or silk or wool with a reversible pattern woven into it

  Familiarity information: DAMASK used as a noun is rare.

• DAMASK (adjective)
  The adjective DAMASK has 1 sense:

1. having a woven pattern

  Familiarity information: DAMASK used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAMASK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A table linen made from linen with a damask pattern

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("damask" is a kind of...):

napery; table linen (linens for the dining table)

Derivation:

damask (having a woven pattern)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A fabric of linen or cotton or silk or wool with a reversible pattern woven into it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("damask" is a kind of...):

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)

Derivation:

damask (having a woven pattern)

• DAMASK (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a woven pattern

Context example:

damask table linens

Similar:

fancy (not plain; decorative or ornamented)

Derivation:

damask (a fabric of linen or cotton or silk or wool with a reversible pattern woven into it)

damask (a table linen made from linen with a damask pattern)

 Context examples 

Brother Luke hath given me some skill in damask work, and in the enamelling of shrines, tabernacles, diptychs and triptychs.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The whole party rose accordingly, and under Mrs. Rushworth's guidance were shewn through a number of rooms, all lofty, and many large, and amply furnished in the taste of fifty years back, with shining floors, solid mahogany, rich damask, marble, gilding, and carving, each handsome in its way.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

A bed supported on massive pillars of mahogany, hung with curtains of deep red damask, stood out like a tabernacle in the centre; the two large windows, with their blinds always drawn down, were half shrouded in festoons and falls of similar drapery; the carpet was red; the table at the foot of the bed was covered with a crimson cloth; the walls were a soft fawn colour with a blush of pink in it; the wardrobe, the toilet-table, the chairs were of darkly polished old mahogany.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I had a young friend who set up housekeeping with six sheets, but she had finger bowls for company and that satisfied her, said Mrs. March, patting the damask tablecloths, with a truly feminine appreciation of their fineness.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

We might take the edge of our hunger off ere we seek the prince, for though his tables are gay with damask and silver he is no trencherman himself, and hath no sympathy for those who are his betters.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)