damask

1. 1.

   a table linen made from linen with a damask pattern

   Broadertable linen
2. 2.

   a fabric of linen or cotton or silk or wool with a reversible pattern woven into it

   Broaderfabric

1. 1.

   having a woven pattern

   “damask table linens”

   Similarfancy

Other forms of damask

plural

damasks·

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.

Questions about damask

What does damask mean?

damask means "a table linen made from linen with a damask pattern". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in damask?

damask has 2 syllables: dam-ask. The stress falls on "dam". In IPA it is /ˈdæməsk/.

Is damask a common word?

damask is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.