The Collaborative International Dictionary
Damask \Dam"ask\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Damasked; p. pr. & vb. n. Damasking.] To decorate in a way peculiar to Damascus or attributed to Damascus; particularly:
with flowers and rich designs, as silk;
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with inlaid lines of gold, etc., or with a peculiar marking or ``water,'' as metal. See Damaskeen.
Mingled metal damasked o'er with gold.
--Dryde?.On the soft, downy bank, damasked with flowers.
--Milton.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: damask)
Usage examples of "damasked".
Birds alighted on crocketed chair-backs and on damasked helmets of war.
Delacroix’s Arabian cavaliers, with their long white burnouses, their shining belts, their damasked arms, their horses, who tore each other with their teeth while their riders contended fiercely with their maces.
Despite herself she constantly pictured him as he might appear on the fields of conflict, if he lived: James the Sixteenth, King-Emperor, mounted on his armored warhorse Hrimscathr, the sword Arcturus scabbarded at his side and its damasked quillons catching the sun's rays.
The sword Arcturus was scabbarded at his side, its damasked quillons deflecting the sun's rays to blinding shards.
Sunlight through the rowans damasked the brick chimney on the western wall, although rain-clouds were by now boiling up from the east.
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.
The hem of her azure damasked gown did not whisper against her ankles.
He speculatively eyed the painted portraits of ships and navy officers that hung on its walls, took in the polished hardwood sideboard and chairs, and almost smiled at the sterling silver flatware on a dining table that was covered by a white linen cloth with a damasked pattern.