damask rose

American  

noun

1. a fragrant, pink rose, Rosa damascena.

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damask rose British  

noun

1. a rose, Rosa damascena, native to Asia and cultivated for its pink or red fragrant flowers, which are used to make the perfume attar

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Etymology

Origin of damask rose

First recorded in 1530–40

Example Sentences

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damask rose

Come spring, a blanket of velvety pink damask rose blossoms shroud the hills with their romantic scent.

From Time ● Oct. 13, 2017

My grandmother also brought her mother’s fragrant damask rose to this farm.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 30, 2015

Love songs belong, too, to the damask rose, but love still set to martial chords, wrung, as it were, from heroes' wives, in a rapture of patriotic sacrifice.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

Katrine’s eyes shone, her pale cheeks blazed a damask rose, the firm lips gaped, showing a flash of small, white teeth.

From An Unknown Lover by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

Her beauty was of a peculiar type—dark, passionate, and picturesque like that of the pomegranate, the damask rose or the passion-flower.

From A Mad Love by Brame, Charlotte M.