damask : Idioms & Phrases

• a deep rose-color like that of the damask rose.

Webster 1913

• a small dark-colored plum, generally called damson.

Webster 1913

• noun large hardy very fragrant pink rose; cultivated in Asia Minor as source of attar of roses; parent of many hybrids
  damask rose; Rosa damascena.
  

WordNet

• (Bot.), a large, pink, hardy, and very fragrant variety of rose (Rosa damascena) from Damascus. "Damask roses have not been known in England above one hundred years." Bacon.

Webster 1913

• noun a hard resilient steel often decorated and used for sword blades
  Damascus steel.
  

WordNet

• steel of the kind originally made at Damascus, famous for its hardness, and its beautiful texture, ornamented with waving lines; especially, that which is inlaid with damaskeening; formerly much valued for sword blades, from its great flexibility and tenacity.

Webster 1913

• noun long cultivated herb having flowers whose scent is more pronounced in the evening; naturalized throughout Europe to Siberia and into North America
  Dame's violet; Hesperis matronalis; sweet rocket.
  

WordNet

• noun large hardy very fragrant pink rose; cultivated in Asia Minor as source of attar of roses; parent of many hybrids
  damask rose; Rosa damascena.
  

WordNet