damask

damasti

damasti-

damastiliina An ornate silk fabric originating from Damascus.

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(..)but what struck Tom's fancy most was a strange, grim-looking, high backed chair, carved in the most fantastic manner, with a flowered damask cushion, and the round knobs at the bottom of the legs carefully tied up in red cloth, as if it had got the gout in its toes.

Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.

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Thursday. D. certainly improved. Better night. Slight tinge of damask revisiting cheek.

My cage has many rooms / Damask and dark / Nothing there sings, / Not even my lark.

But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, / Feed on her damask cheek

They had a lurking suspicion even, that he died of secret love; though I must say there was a picture of him in the house with a damask nose, which concealment did not appear to have ever preyed upon.