How To Use Damask In A Sentence
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He had chasubles, also, of amber-coloured silk, and blue silk and gold brocade, and yellow silk damask and cloth of gold, figured with representations of the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ, and embroidered with lions and peacocks and other emblems; dalmatics of white satin and pink silk damask, decorated with tulips and dolphins and fleurs-de-lis; altar frontals of crimson velvet and blue linen; and many corporals, chalice-veils, and sudaria.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Then the pleasant little surprises of all kinds that we imagined; and the pleasant looks that greet us when we condescend to accept them; the patience that can translate our most unwarrantable "crossness", because there has been some trifling difficulty in obtaining the half of a star or the corner of a moon which it had pleased us to require, into "such a good sign of being really better"; and then our appetite (which the gods know is at that season singularly keen), how is it not tempted with unutterable dainties and friande morsels, all sorts of amateur cookery in our behalf, where Love himself has not disdained to turn the spit, and look into the stewpan! and all served up so gracefully on the small tray, covered with its delicate white damask cloth, arraying with more than mortal charms the moulds of crystal jelly and pure-looking blanc mange!
Zoe: The History of Two Lives
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Throughout the pavilion, the most costly materials were used: precious wood veneers and lacquer for furniture, silk damasks and velvets for upholstery, furs for coverlets and throws.
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His Holiness puts on a _mozzetta_ of white (instead of red) damask, and wears it during the whole of Easter week: His shoes also are white.
The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome
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No expense had been spared, and the walls, as in a Venetian palazzo, were covered in rich damasked silk.
A Penchant for Dreaming
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The rest of his person was sheathed in the complete mail of the time, richly inlaid with silver, which contrasted with the azure in which the steel was damasked.
Count Robert of Paris
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Bourbons, damasks, albas, gallicas, mosses and rugosas are all likely groups of roses to choose from for fragrance - the difficulty is narrowing down the candidates.
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Violet leaves, wild tansie, succory-roots, large mace, raisins, and damask prunes boil'd with a chicken and a crust of bread.
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery
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A light damask curtain is found to have been saturated with port wine; a ditto chair-cushion has been doing duty as a dripping-pan to a cluster of wax-lights; a china shepherdess, having been brought into violent collision with the tail of a raging lion on the mantel-piece, has reduced the noble beast to the short-cut condition of a Scotch colley.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841,
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[Banjarmassen] one of the towns of this island, is the chief trade for these articles; and at this place the following commodities are in principal request: Coromandel cloths of all kinds, China silks, damasks, taffetas, velvets of all colours but black, stammel broad-cloths, and Spanish dollars.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08
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The chair, with its handsome gilding, is covered in a crimson silk damask that is similar to the original.
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Marion put the silk damask gown Rose had worn to the evening meal in the chest and closed the lid.
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The high canopy over the bed was draped with prim folds of damask, and the coverlet was of some quaint crocheted work that hung in fringed ends to the floor.
The Miller of Old Church
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Richardson derives it from Namsh, being freckled (damasked).
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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There are 87 bedrooms, all in country-house style, and the newly decorated executive rooms, some with four-poster beds, feature darker, lusher colour schemes in opulent damasks and velours.
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So I dressed in a gown made of green damask and white silk.
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Colour dawn wears sock shoe, damask face, toe cap is pointed, wear have bootlace.
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There goes 'the seld shown flamen, _puffing_ his way to _win a vulgar station_,' here is a 'veiled dame' who lets us see that 'war of white and damask in her nicely gawded cheeks,' a moment; -- look at that 'kitchen malkin,' peering over the wall there with 'her richest lockram' 'pinned on her reechy neck,' eyeing the hero as he passes; and look at this poor baby here, this Elizabethan baby, saved, conserved alive, crying himself
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
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There is a vacuum flask on the damask table - cloth.
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The slip seat retains its original leather covering and foundation upholstery underneath modern blue damask.
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A broken sword was equal to death on the battlefield, whereas the tougher damask steel with a harder steel inlay held up better to the demands of battle - technology prevailed over brute strength.
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*Putz ebreething awn teh ellee gant tablol wif snowee whyte damask cloth an gleeming silbur candelabra wif 15 lit candlols.
Intervention Kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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a cotton and linen cloth, and _diaper linen_ was woven of flax with a raised figure such as in damask, and used chiefly for table-linen.
Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
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Many old garden roses, and these include the albas, bourbons, centifolias, damasks, chinas, noisettes, etc., bloom only once a season.
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Poor fellow, I know he adores my daughter and thinks to let concealment like a thingamy in the bud feed on his damask cheek!
Three Hats A Farcical Comedy in Three Acts
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The left panel pictures not much more than the soiled tableware of an abandoned meal set out on a damask cloth with wine and water glasses, stains and crumbs, a coffee cup, an empty plate and a fork with the tines turned down.
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-- Our illustration shows a third kind of openwork ground with one corner in damask stitch, of the square represented in fig. 105.
Encyclopedia of Needlework
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Constructed of wire, the garland is spherical, and it is decorated with strips of various materials from seersucker to damask.
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She described a line of furniture that included rich, ornately carved mahogany pieces and very crisp, tailored upholstery in silk and damask.
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Many old garden roses, and these include the albas, bourbons, centifolias, damasks, chinas, noisettes, etc., bloom only once a season.
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The walls glowed with the pearled damask of shells.
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The vest was cut from a damask brocade and the breeches from bengaline, the latter which was dyed to match the vest fabric.
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Fabrics here include silk damask devores, silk damask and stripes and plains inspired by Imperial Russia.
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All have damask walls, marble floors and Bohemian crystal chandeliers.
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Sam Mendes's soigné productions with accomplished casts offer many a damask cheek and relatively few warts.
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Even centuries later, the rich damasks and velvets favored for upholstery would be seen as the height of chic.
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He was formally attired in a silk jacket of dark purple damask, black velvet breeches, and an old-fashioned full-bottomed wig.
The Thief Taker
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She had been named Damask by her mother, with just that same kind of spontaneity, only somehow messier.
NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
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Both calamanco and silk damask were used.
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My private closet is a pale sage green, trimmed in alabaster white, with a delicate painted chaise covered in soft green damask with a beautiful tulipwood desk, and my bedroom is done in pinks and creams.
Exit the Actress
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I mind one super-tunic she gave me, but half worn, "-- this was said impressively, for a garment only _half worn_ was considered a fit gift from one peeress to another --" of blue damask, all set with silver buttons, and broidered with ladies 'heads along the border.
A Forgotten Hero Not for Him
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Wallcoverings made by shaking finely chopped fibers over a pattern printed in varnish or other sticky material to give the appearance of velvet or damask.
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The chairs were of different forms and shapes, some had been carved, some gilded, some covered with damasked leather, some with embroidered work, but all were damaged and worm-eaten.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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They were long and narrow, draped in pale grey damask with inside sheers.
DOLL'S EYES
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Leather, damask, and embroidered seats replaced cane and rush.
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Silk weaving gave rise to an even greater range of products and styles than the weaving of cotton - brocades, damasks, gauzes, satins, etc., in endless variety.
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Where is that perfect place where monogrammed damasked linens, and flowers were changed daily, and one fretted lest one forgot to sufficiently tip the second footman who had so unobtrusively, so expertly, unpacked one's bag, shined one's shoes, pressed rumpled clothes and drawn one's bath?
Michael Henry Adams: Why I Hate dogs: Useful Advice for Summer Guests and Hosts
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Cloth shoes refer to shoes made with hemp fiber, damask silk, brocade and so on.
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A buffet lunch of ham in aspic and salads and cold beef was arranged beneath it, afloat on its own sea of white damask.
THE MAIN CAGES
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In fact -- as the declaration of manly love had been accompanied by an endeavour to salute what the General had called her damask-cheek -- she had slapped the General's own cheek a resounding blow ....
Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life
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The original, unfaded colour of the damask in the saloon is found behind a state portrait.
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Damask, by the way, takes its name from the city of Damascus where the fabric was first made, and is simply "linen so woven that a pattern is produced by the different directions of the thread," plain damask being the same fabric, but unfigured.
The Complete Home
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She shows a masterful attention to detail, embellishing a jade damask and sable stole with a quilted Asian-inspired pattern or adding delicate black feathers to the high neckline of a sleeveless black-to-lime chiffon gown.
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Cloth shoes refer to shoes made with hemp fiber, damask silk, brocade and so on.
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From Holy Saturday till the second Saturday after Easter the mozetta is of white damask.
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She took it slowly drew it from the scabbard, and while the ladies who stood around turned away their eyes with real or affected shuddering, she noted with a curious eye the high polish and rich, damasked ornaments upon the glittering blade.
Kenilworth
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The hem of her azure damasked gown did not whisper against her ankles.
Dalamar the Dark
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They were long and narrow, draped in pale grey damask with inside sheers.
DOLL'S EYES
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Beginners may want to try neutral tones of beige and grey or different values of color in the same family for a tone on tone damask effect.
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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
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At first the boy was uneasy and wanted to hurry out of the way, but the salesman only beckoned and smiled, and spread out on the counter a lovely piece of satin damask, as if to tempt him.
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
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Now in this state of things, the general mode of eating must either have been with the spoon or the fingers; and this perhaps may have been the reason that spoons became an usual present from gossips to their god-children at christenings [78]; and that the bason and ewer, for washing before and after dinner, was introduced, whence the _ewerer_ was a great officer [79], and the _ewery_ is retained at Court to this day [80]; we meet with _damaske water_ after dinner [81], I presume, perfumed; and the words _ewer_ &c. plainly come from the
The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390
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Plenty of damask towels hang on the rack, and the "splasher" is a marvel of needlework.
Etiquette
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_ -- I should feel obliged for any information on the earliest specimen of tablecloths being "damasked," and the history of that manufacture.
Notes and Queries, Number 43, August 24, 1850
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Also of interest is a rare crimson damask banyan - an early precursor of the dressing gown - of early 18 th-century silk, worn by Thomas Severne, Gentleman of the Bed Chamber to King William III.
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Damascus is a center of glassblowing and fabric production, including the silk brocade called damask, which was named for the city.
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The windows have very handsome gilt cornices, with tamboured muslin curtains, and others of a blue and gold coloured damask; there are two large sofas, and four small chairs of dark walnut wood, carved and covered with the same material as the curtains, and a smaller chair with a tapestry seat -- also a large rocking-chair covered with Utrecht velvet.
First Impressions of the New World On Two Travellers from the Old in the Autumn of 1858
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They made cakes of damask rose-leaves and pulvilio, civit, and musk, of
Customs and Fashions in Old New England
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Carrara marble inlaid with verd-antique, in a kind of damask pattern; over the pulpit it fell like drapery, so easy, so graceful, so exquisitely imitated, that I was obliged to touch it to assure myself of the material.
The Diary of an Ennuyée
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Not even Churchill's great prestige could effect a deal but he was now aware of the pressing need to establish a regency and, on his return to London, pressured King George into appointing Archbishop Damaskinos as regent.
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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
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damask table linens
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The princess wore a mantua and petticoat, white damask with the finest embroidery of rich embossed gold.
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Archive 2009-02-01
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They say that the finest pleasures are found in ports of discriminating beauty where there can be found damasked silks, worried silver, and strong emulsions tinctured with human understanding.
Sunny And 78
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Old-fashioned, or heritage, roses are direct descendants of the original species roses -- such as alba, damask, moss and rugosa -- and are recognized by the American Rose Society as those grown before 1867, the year the first hybrid tea was launched.
The temperamental rose offers rewards in color, fragrance and luxuriance
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The seats were long benches, upholstered with solferino-colored damask and the scenes were the merest daubs.
Sixty Years of California Song
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I designed a red damask long-sleeved A-line floor-length evening dress with the now-accepted low decollete.
Women I Have Dressed (and Undressed!)
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Pallace, yea, most of the men and women dwelling in the Cittie, the bodie of Gabriello being laide in the midst of the Court, upon the white Damaske shrowd given by Andreana, with infinite Roses and other sweet Flowers lying theron: and such was the peoples love to him, that never was any mans death, more to be bemoaned and lamented.
The Decameron
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Bourbons, damasks, albas, gallicas, mosses and rugosas are all likely groups of roses to choose from for fragrance - the difficulty is narrowing down the candidates.
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November 30th, 2009 / Posted by fp julia / Permalink one of our readers informed me of this amazing company called squint, located in england, that makes furniture, light fixtures and home accessories. they look like they would be a perfect fit for a free people store! their collections use a mix of contemporary and vintage fabrics, as well as woven english damasks, 19th century french trimmings, and japanese ceremonial kimono silks. i am in love with the dresser…
2009 November | Free People Clothing Boutique Blog
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A buffet lunch of ham in aspic and salads and cold beef was arranged beneath it, afloat on its own sea of white damask.
THE MAIN CAGES
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Earlier he had watched her draw the heavy damask drapes in the dining room, cover her head with a kerchief, and light the Sabbath candles, uttering the familiar prayer in a tone of rote and reverence.
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The emperor wore a rich robe of cloth of gold of cramoisy, and his son was in a robe of green damask.
Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477
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Up, black, striped and damasked like the chasuble
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There goes 'the seld shown flamen, _puffing_ his way to _win a vulgar station_,' here is a 'veiled dame' who lets us see that 'war of white and damask in her nicely gawded cheeks,' a moment; -- look at that 'kitchen malkin,' peering over the wall there with 'her richest lockram' 'pinned on her reechy neck,' eyeing the hero as he passes; and look at this poor baby here, this Elizabethan baby, saved, conserved alive, crying himself
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
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In the creeks, where the water was still and clear, and where throughout the day, like a delicate damaskeen, the shadows of leaves that overhang would lie, the
Indian Why Stories
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Their robes rustled, whispering to the stone steps-Lady Ylle's green robe of damasked silk, the king's brocaded violet robe, Lord Garan's unadorned robe of rusty gold samite.
Dalamar the Dark
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There was a well in the centre with roses trained over it, roses of the dark old damask kind and the dainty musk, used to be distilled for the eyes, some flowers lingering still; there was the brown dittany or fraxinella, whose dried blossoms are phosphoric at night; delicate pink centaury, good for ague; purple mallows, good for wounds; leopard's bane with yellow blossoms; many and many more old and dear friends of Grisell, redolent of Wilton cloister and Sister
Grisly Grisell
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We don't expect to carpet our house with Axminster and hang our windows with damask, but at least we must have Brussels and brocatelle, -- it _would not do_ not to.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864
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Use chintz, damask and toiles along with classic stripes, checks and textured plain fabrics.
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damask is a double-faced fabric
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Its blade is damask steel with a scabbard is a dull gold with jewels of all colours set in images that include an English rose, Scottish thistle, and Irish shamrock.
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By upholstering a wall in damask and then leaving it bare, Ms. Brandolini makes the traditional pattern read as modern.
Muriel's Moment
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And again, the effect of extensity is never long satisfactory unless it is superinduced upon some material beauty; the dignity of great hangings would suffer if they were not of damask, but of cotton, and the vast smoothness of the sky would grow oppressive if it were not of so tender a blue.
The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory
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There are numerous silk manufactories in Brussels; and the beautiful linen, called damask, is exported in great quantities.
The World's Fair
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For the most part, kids want something cool that their friends feel comfortable hanging out in and a silk damask couch is not it.
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The gown in Plate XIV is of worsted brocaded damask that was pressed after weaving to polish the surface.
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Miu Miu has also revamped its Milan flagship store in damask and rich colors — a change from a more minimalist concrete look — and has redecorated a network of 75 boutiques around the world.
In Bloom: Miu Miu Comes of Age
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It is advisable, too, to put not-to-be-used damask away rough-dry, otherwise it may crack, in the folds.
The Complete Home
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She is especially fond of gallicas, damasks and ramblers.
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It was a Persian concept that soft wrought iron was female, and hardenable carbon steel was male; thereforein laminated damask steel where they were combined.
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Wah!
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These elegantly shaped weapons are often made from the celebrated damask steel and decorated with precious stones.
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However, make some changes and you have A bogger exchanged 18 balls of Rowan Damask for Patons Kroy Sock yarn in colorway Muslin.
Archive 2008-11-01
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The old "maiden's blush," too rare now in our bedding plant gardens, the velvety "damask," the wee Scotch roses, the prolific white, and the curious "York and Lancaster," with monster moss-rose trees, hung over the carriage road.
Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls
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In the creeks, where the water was still and clear, and where throughout the day, like a delicate damaskeen, the shadows of leaves that overhang would lie, the Speckled Trout broke the surface of the pool in his gladness of the coming day.
Indian Why Stories
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Even centuries later, the rich damasks and velvets favored for upholstery would be seen as the height of chic.
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Of a similar date but prettier is a pair of Chinese-yellow damask shoes together with a matching robe altered to form a dressing gown.
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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
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Its blade is damask steel, while the scabbard is a dull gold with jewels of all colours.
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There were dozens of them of every hue, from that deep crimson damask which is almost black, to the purest white, fresh gathered from the trees apparently, with the dew still glistening on their perfumed petals and on the polished surface of the leaves.
The Heavenly Twins
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Margaret wore a gown trimmed in crimson and the Countess of Surrey bore her train, while James was magnificent in white damask with crimson satin sleeves.
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Draping tables in red and black damask is a simple, dramatic way to transform an eating area inexpensively.
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Described as elegant for the time with polished mahogany walls and white satin damask curtains, the 160-foot long New York began shuttling passengers and cargo from New York City to Charleston, South Carolina in 1837.
1846 Shipwreck Yields Southern Gold and Capped Bust Halves : Coin Collecting News
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The tenderness of their green appeared under the glaucous mantle; while that grey suffusion, which is the blush of green life, spread its damask chastity.
Lorna Doone
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-- Bridget becomes as a mighty wind and peels off the immeasurable table-cloth as a northwester strips off the leafy damask from the autumn woods.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858
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Colour, pattern, and fibre Let colours and patterns, or the weave of fabric such as damask, guide your choice, but bear in mind practical factors also
Window Dressing (Tips!)
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The bride wore a white damask petticoat worked with pink roses, her pink satin shortgown was looped up with garlands of them, and she wore a wreath of roses on her head.
The Pot of Gold And Other Stories
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The figure is formed, as in damask, by the warp overlapping several threads of the woof.
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There is a parallel richness suggested by the names of such exotic fineries as sash, shawl, sequin, muslin, mohair, damask, and cotton.
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Lacy continued, indeed, in nominal observance of his vow, to dwell in a pavilion by the gates of Gloucester; but he seldom donned his armour, substituted costly damask and silk for his war-worn shamois doublet, and affected at his advanced time of life more gaiety of attire than his contemporaries remembered as distinguishing his early youth.
The Betrothed
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A buffet lunch of ham in aspic and salads and cold beef was arranged beneath it, afloat on its own sea of white damask.
THE MAIN CAGES
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Our only long tablecloth was a damask, engarlanded and diapered and resplendent with a colored border warranted to wash.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880
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They say that the finest pleasures are found in ports of discriminating beauty where there can be found damasked silks, worried silver, and strong emulsions tinctured with human understanding.
Sunny And 78
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He had chasubles, also, of amber-colored silk, and blue silk and gold brocade, and yellow silk damask and cloth of gold, figured with representations of the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ, and embroidered with lions and peacocks and other emblems; dalmatics of white satin and pink silk damask, decorated with tulips and dolphins and fleurs de lys; altar frontals of crimson velvet and blue linen; and many corporals, chalice-veils, and sudaria.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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The chair, with its handsome gilding, is covered in a crimson silk damask that is similar to the original.
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On this rug are four elaborately carved wooden chairs upholstered with luxuriously patterned damask.
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The cloth that covered the table was of that peculiar kind of damask linen invented in the time of Henry IV. by the brothers Graindorge, the skilful weavers, who gave their name to the heavy fabric so well known to housekeepers.
The Country Doctor
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She balanced her public appearances with rest, swathed in a floral wrap and cocooned in a damask bedspread.
Burial for a King
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Most damasks have arching canes and flowers that bloom in small clusters.
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_Overdraperies_ -- (If desired) -- Can be either printed linen, same as cushion in wicker chair, lined with sage green sateen, or brown or sage green poplin, silk damask or sunfast.
Better Homes in America Plan Book for Demonstration Week October 9 to 14, 1922
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Keep the floor simple by sanding and add blocks of colour in rugs in pastels that tone with billowing curtains on poles in chintz and damask.
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The grade-A listed building is filled with Georgian furniture, including a mahogany dining table, a rosewood sideboard, a Chippendale mirror, four Chippendale chairs covered in red damask and two Hepplewhite armchairs.
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Because damask table linen was very expensive at this time, it was owned only by royalty, the nobility and the wealthiest merchants.
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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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Each mattress takes four hours to make and only Jacquard woven damask from Belgium is used in the production.
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I mind one super-tunic she gave me, but half worn, "-- this was said impressively, for a garment only _half worn_ was considered a fit gift from one peeress to another --" of blue damask, all set with silver buttons, and broidered with ladies 'heads along the border.
A Forgotten Hero Not for Him
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Light and feminine fabrics such as satin crepe tulles and damasks combine with the fabrics found at work and in the masculine world - cottons, sail cloth, denim and poplin.
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Bourbons, damasks, albas, gallicas, mosses and rugosas are all likely groups of roses to choose from for fragrance - the difficulty is narrowing down the candidates.
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Dvoøák's Cello Concerto, performed alfresco in city parks, supported by a symphony of albas, gallicas, damasks, musks and, his favourite of all, Rosa primula, the incense rose.
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Her silk damask off-the-shoulder dress possibly suggests a later eighteenth-century date.
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The willow, almond and the whole lot of trees, on the upper side, were, it is true, without blossom and leaves; but pongee and damask silks, paper and lustring had been employed, together with rice-paper, to make flowers of, which had been affixed on the branches.
Hung Lou Meng
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Light and feminine fabrics such as satin crepe tulles and damasks combine with the fabrics found at work and in the masculine world - cottons, sail cloth, denim and poplin.
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They'd got out the best china and crystal glasses, the damask napkins, the ebony-handled knives.
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Keep the floor simple by sanding and add blocks of colour in rugs in pastels that tone with billowing curtains on poles in chintz and damask.
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I suppose, during the utterance of the above three brief phrases, the harmless little osculatory operation has taken place, and blushing cousin Harry has touched the damask cheek of cousin Flora and cousin Dora.
The Virginians
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In the few hours which had elapsed since the ghastly discovery, the brocades and kincob of the audience-tents had been torn down and distributed, the cushions deprived of their rich covers, and the very _gaddi_ on which the Rajah's body had been found stripped of its damask.
The Path to Honour
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The linen tablecloth was either of holland, huckaback, dowlas, osnaburg, or lockram -- all heavy and comparatively coarse materials -- or of fine damask, just as to-day; some of the handsome board-cloths were even trimmed with lace.
Home Life in Colonial Days
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The new decor is cool and pleasant - pale walls, nicely-spaced tables laid with what seems like red damask, rich green carpet with a heraldic design, two fresh peonies on each table.
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Fabrics here include silk damask devores, silk damask and stripes and plains inspired by Imperial Russia.
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New England, rivaled the display of damask, fruits, liqueurs, and delicatest meats.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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Dusty pink flowered silk damask was twisted into an evening gown slashed at the sides to reveal little lozenges of flesh.
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Because only the self-indulgent king was allowed to sit in a fauteuil, or armchair, there was an abundance of lowly stools and benches - all covered in regal fabrics: velvets, damasks, gold-threaded brocades, and embroidered silk.
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The film has an interesting plot, but shame about the silly car chases and unconvincing escapes from death or even injury bar a delicate scratch on Johanssen's damask cheek.
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Throughout the pavilion, the most costly materials were used: precious wood veneers and lacquer for furniture, silk damasks and velvets for upholstery, furs for coverlets and throws.
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