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damask rose

NOUN
  1. large hardy very fragrant pink rose; cultivated in Asia Minor as source of attar of roses; parent of many hybrids

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  • Naturally he loves ‘the sweet smell of different flowers’ … he notes the sweetness of the violet, the eglantine (sweet briar) and the damask rose; but it is suggestive that in his most sustained and exquisite appreciation of the rose, what chiefly appeals to him is the fact that, unlike other flowers, roses even when faded never smell badly, but that Flowers, Shakespeare, and the horror of bad smells
  • They made cakes of damask rose-leaves and pulvilio, civit, and musk, of Customs and Fashions in Old New England
  • Then they ran into a meteoroid swarm (she supposed) which rebounded off their shieldfields and sent them careening off trajectory; and the man shook his fist, commenced on a mighty oath, glimpsed her and turned it into a Biblical “Damask rose and shittah tree!” The Earth Book of Stormgate
  • This reminds me of long ago when I accidentally came upon a stash of St. Rose of Lima candles scented with real damask rose rather than the fake stuff which makes me have migraines or the Rosa gallica which makes me sneeze forty-two times in a row. Making Light: Making light under difficult conditions
  • Damask roses—scarlet and white, yellow and cream—had been brought in from the garden and made into long garlands twined with wild woodbine. The Dressmaker
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