Middle English Dictionary Entry
damask n.
Entry Info
| Forms | damask n. |
| Etymology | Prob. OF; L Damascus. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Damascus; (b) a costly figured cloth from Damascus (the Near East, the Mediterranean), damask; ~ cloth; ~ werk.
Associated quotations
a
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)761 : At damaske is ðe ðridde stede, Quer abram is bigging dede.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)15.486 : So many prelates..of..damaske.
- a1500(?a1450) GRom.(Hrl 7333)155 : Adam, þe first fadir, þat come fro the felde of damask to the contree of paradyse.
b
- (1378) in Löfvenberg Contrib.Lex.100 : [1 yard of narrow] damaske [ribbon].
- (1388) Invent.Westm.in Archaeol.52252 : Tres albe cum duabus stolis et tribus manipulis de nobili panno aureo de damask.
- (1402) Let.Zouche in RES 8 (PRO E 101/512/10)260 : A cloth of damask..of Grene oþer red oþer bleik.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.714 : Wevers also of wolne & of lyne, Of cloth of gold, damaske, and satyn.
- ?a1425(a1400) Brut-1377 (Corp-C 174)293/7 : Noman shulde were no cloþe þat was woruȝt oute of Engelond as cloþe of gold, of silk, damaske.
- (1438) EEWills109/3 : I bequeth to the saide chapell of Siscetre a cloth of Siluer, and a blak cloth of Damask sengill.
- (1438) EEWills111/28 : A gowne of grene damaske.
- (1448) Acc.St.Mary Thame in BBOAJ 1214 : A sute of white damask clothe of gold, with orfrayes of grene welwet.
- (1448) Acc.St.Mary Thame in BBOAJ 1349 : 1 Vestment of blew damaske with orfray of Cloth of gold with the trinite on the bak.
- (1459) Paston (Gairdner)3.188 : j vestement hole of redde damaske warke.
- (1472) Acc.St.Edm.Sarum6 : j Sute of white Damask wrought with eglys of goolde.
- (1473) Paston (Gairdner)5.187 : Sende me a newe vestment off whyght damaske ffor a dekyne..I wyll make an armyng doblett off it.
- c1475(c1420) Page SRouen (Eg 1995)p.45 : Of blacke damaske was hys wede.
- a1500(a1451) Commodities Eng.(LdMisc 593)553 : Clothes of Gold..Clothes of Sylver..Velvet..Damaske..Satteyn.
- a1550 Lament Duch.Glo.(Bal 354)p.208 : Farewelle, damask and clothes of gold!