Richly patterned fabric

Usage examples of damask.

StregaSchloss on the end of a moth-eaten damask curtain was a bad idea, or maybe the sight of the Borgia money going to such an undeserving home had simply robbed the estate lawyer of the will to live, but miraculously his abseiling suicide attempt didnt kill him.

His ague had caused him to swathe his throat and chin with a broad linen cravat, and he wore a loose damask powdering-gown secured by a cord round the waist.

Beneath lay ells of costly silks, samites, cendals, and damasks, as well as pelts of ermine and sable.

Under his jubbah Cipres wore a tunic of white damask that Tirant had given him with the cross of Saint George embroidered on it.

Birds alighted on crocketed chair-backs and on damasked helmets of war.

At last, they came to a small saloon, hung with red damask, in which the principal article of furniture was a tall mirror of the French regency period, set on a gilt console and framed by a pair of bronze girandoles bearing clusters of lighted candles.

I shall also give you a piece of damask, silks, gold, haircloth and silk for the lining, to make a burse, again to your own design.

There were silks in rose samite, violet sendal, and a heavy green and blue damask.

Slothrop runs right into it, bounces off, sez shit, opens the door to find her waving a big red damask tablecloth at him.

The premises seemed to go on for ever until quite suddenly a heavy damask curtain was drawn back revealing another world and one that took Gordon Twing quite by surprise.

Alyx Spelt and Captain Bennan faced him across the damask cloth, and Wyme took the head.

David once said what a surgeon he would have made, and Father Martin made a weak joke about appendices being made of damask.

And there was Sir Damask and Lady Monogram, who were people moving in quite the first circles.

Then came Sir Damask and Lady Monogram, and Dick at once began about his pigeons.

He wore a rich skirt and a shawl of blue damask with fine gold passementerie, and no headdress or any other adornment on his head except for his hair, which was so blond and curly it looked like rings of gold.