damask rose
a fragrant, pink rose, Rosa damascena.
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How to use damask rose in a sentence
It was monstrous that this English damask rose should fall a prey to so detestable a person as the Comte de Lussigny.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol | William J. LockeThen she looked down at her pink damask rose—it was withered.
Patchwork | Anna Balmer MyersThe damask rose (No. 5) remains to us under the same name, telling its own history.
The plant-lore and garden-craft of Shakespeare | Henry Nicholson EllacombeAminta's cheeks unrolled their deep damask rose at the abrupt intrusion of the name.
Lord Ormont and his Aminta, Complete | George MeredithThou eating canker-worm, that preyest upon the opening bud, and turnest the damask-rose into livid yellowness!
Clarissa, Volume 6 (of 9) | Samuel Richardson
British Dictionary definitions for damask rose
a rose, Rosa damascena, native to Asia and cultivated for its pink or red fragrant flowers, which are used to make the perfume attar
Origin of damask rose
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