a silk stuff, with a raised pattern, so as that the right side of the damask is that which hath the flowers raised or fattened.

Damasks should be of dressed silk, both in warp and woof; and, in France, half an ell in breadth: they are made at Chalons in Champagne, and in some places in Flanders, as at Tournay, &c. entirely of wool, ½ of an ell wide, and 20 ells long.

Damask is also applied to a very fine steel, in some parts of the Levant, chiefly at Damascus in Syria; whence its name. It is used for sword and cutlass blades, and is finely tempered.