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say it: DAM-uhsk
damask is a noun and adjective meaning "a table linen made from linen with a damask pattern". It is pronounced /ˈdæməsk/ — DAM-uhsk. It carries 3 recorded senses.
a table linen made from linen with a damask pattern
a fabric of linen or cotton or silk or wool with a reversible pattern woven into it
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for damask come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.