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Across the landing, the Yellow Room also boasts expensive furnishings, especially the bed, which is covered in bright yellow damask, re-creating a bed Washington acquired in 1758.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026

After the service, Francis's body — dressed in a red chasuble and a damask and golden papal mitre — will be transported to the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome for burial.

From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2025

Opie’s backdrop is a damask drapery in dark green, red’s vivifying complementary color.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2024

The current exhibit piece, Seattle-based Hungarian artist Timea Tihanyi’s “Like Love,” continues through the end of August, and features a deconstructed damask tablecloth adorned with hands in honor of Hungarian embroidery work.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 2, 2022

Down along the river was a pile of roses, a huge pile of damask roses, the autumn-flowering ones.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

Much of the furniture - Empire style - is what she acquired, as are the silk damasks on the walls.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2014

A double is about 430 square feet, but small rooms are counterbalanced by refined interiors, featuring color-coordinated damasks on the beds and armchairs and fine antique wood tables mixed with Lucite ones.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had never seen the eunuch dress in anything but silk and velvet and the richest damasks, and this man smelled of sweat instead of lilacs.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Her gardens are full of roses—sprawling, old tangled bushes, quite a few of them autumn-flowering damasks with their last flowers still nodding and drooping in the rain.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

When she opened it, she found piles of the finest velvets and damasks the Free Cities could produce . . . and resting on top, nestled in the soft cloth, three huge eggs.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

He picked out from the pile of grim weapons two knives, leaf-bladed, damasked in gold and red; and searching further he found also the sheaths, black, set with small red gems.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

For each of the hobbits he chose a dagger, long, leaf-shaped, and keen, of marvellous workmanship, damasked with serpent-forms in red and gold.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

We found it a basilica, its sides divided by square piers, and the whole interior, piers and walls, covered with a damasked pattern wrought in verd antique upon a ground of white marble.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward

“What’s the matter?” cried Steve, for the Norseman suddenly raised his spy-glass and directed it eastward, where the sea looked to be one dazzling sheen of damasked silver.

From Steve Young by Fenn, George Manville

I must have my new device damasked on my shield.

From The Armourer's Prentices by Hennessy, W.J.