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Definition of Damasks
1. damask [v] - See also: damask
Lexicographical Neighbors of Damasks
Literary usage of Damasks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany (1828)
"... Piece Goods—Wrought Silks •—damasks—Crapes—Shawls—Crape Shawls. For Sale 19
September— Prompt 9 January 1829. Company's.—Mocha Coffee—Sugar. ..."
2. Winston's Cumulative Loose-leaf Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Reference Workedited by Thomas Edward Finegan edited by Thomas Edward Finegan (1922)
"... European manufactures; it is also a place of considerable manufacturing industry
in silk, damasks, cotton and other fabrics, tobacco, glas.s, soap, etc. ..."
3. A Calendar of the Court Minutes, Etc. of the East India Company, 1635-1639 by East India Company, Ethel Bruce Sainsbury, William Foster (1907)
"Freight remitted to Thomas Robinson, late a factor at Macassar, on all his goods
except the damasks, which are to be viewed before delivery. ..."
4. Narrative of a Journey from Heraut to Khiva, Moscow, and St. Petersburgh by James Abbott (1867)
"Thus the artificial damasks, as those of Solinger and Klin- ... In fine, whatever
may be the beauty of artificial damasks, they will not bear comparison ..."
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