Damask

a. 1. Pertaining to, or originating at, the city of Damascus; resembling the products or manufactures of Damascus.

2Sense 2. Having the color of the damask-rose.

While dreaming on your damask cheek The dewy sister eyelids lay. Tennyson.

Damask color, a color like that of the damask rose.—Damask plum, a small dark-colored plum, generally called damson.—Damask rose (Bot.), a variety of rose (Rosa damascena) native to Damascus, and brought from thence.—Damask silk, a kind of heavy, rich, figured silk;—usually called simply damask.—Damask steel, a fine quality of steel originally made at Damascus, and formerly much valued for sword-blades, from its great flexibility and tenacity.

n. [It. damasco, damasto, dommasco, Sp. damasco, Fr. damas, Ger. damast, from Damascus. See supra.]

1Sense 1. A kind of stuff with raised figures in various patterns, as flowers, &c., woven in the loom. It was originally made at Damascus, and was composed of rich silk: it is now made of silk intermingled with flax, cotton, or wool.

A bed of ancient damask, with a tester sufficiently lofty to grace a couch of state. W. Irving.

2Sense 2. Linen woven in imitation of the figures in damask silk.