Well attestedNamed for a product of the place
damask
noun · first attested 14th century
The cloth and the steel both remember Damascus.
A reversible figured fabric, or a steel with a watery pattern.
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- Relationship
- Named for a product of the place
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 14th century
- Part of speech
- noun
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Damascus
- In English
damask
English damask points to Damascus, long a source of patterned silk and of famously worked steel. The city name became the word for those techniques in Europe.
Also pinned to Damascus
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Syria
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