damasked, ppl. a.
(ˈdæməskt)
[f. prec.]
1. Of silk, fine linen, and other fabrics: Woven with richly-figured designs.
| 1599 Middleton Micro-Cynicon iii. Wks. (1886) VIII. 124 Sitting at table..All covered with damask'd napery. 1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1673) 206 The outward appearance of the said skin is like to a damaskt garment. 1866 Pall Mall G. 24 Oct. 4 The exports in damasked silk. |
2. Of steel or other metal; = damascened.
| c 1611 Chapman Iliad iii. 345 His sword he took, and fasten'd it, All damask'd, underneath his arm. 1631 Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 202 The out side was..damasked and embossed with wires of gold. 1820 Faraday Exp. Res. xvi. (1859) 59 It is certainly true that a damasked surface may be produced by welding together wires of iron and steel. 1832 Babbage Econ. Manuf. xviii. (ed. 3) 167 Barrels of double-barrel guns, twisted and damasked. |
3. transf. Variegated; diapered.
| 1648 Earl of Westmld. Otia Sacra (1879) 88 The Crimson streaks belace the Damaskt West. 1855 Singleton Virgil I. 360 Blooming be the gates with damasked wreaths. |
4. Having the hue of the damask rose.
| c 1600 Shakes. Sonn. cxxx, I haue seene Roses damaskt, red and white, But no such Roses see I in her cheekes. 16.. Wotton Farewell to Vanities, Beauty, th' eye's idol, [is] but a damask'd skin. 1652 E. Benlowes Theoph. iii. xxviii, So Roses damaskt robe, prankt with green ribbons, sents. |
5. Furnished or hung with damask.
| 1861 Our English Home 134 The damasked chambers. |