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Definition of Damask rose
1. Noun. Large hardy very fragrant pink rose; cultivated in Asia Minor as source of attar of roses; parent of many hybrids.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Damask Rose
Literary usage of Damask rose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Golden Treasury: Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the by Francis Turner Palgrave (1897)
"... I led her sacred feet; And so the Daughter gave, Soft, moth-like, sweet, Showy
as damask-rose and shy as musk, Back to her Mother, anxious in the dusk. ..."
2. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1888)
"They gave them Easter eggs to eat " coloured like a damask rose." Dallam again
felt in his pockets and produced another knife, " which I gave to a ..."
3. The Shakespeare Garden by Esther Singleton (1922)
"The scent hereof is much better than in the White, but not comparable to the
excellency of the damask rose, yet this Rose, being well dried and well kept, ..."
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