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damask rose
noun
- a fragrant, pink rose, Rosa damascena.
damask rose
noun
- 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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Origin of damask rose1
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Origin of damask rose1
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Example Sentences
It was monstrous that this English damask rose should fall a prey to so detestable a person as the Comte de Lussigny.
Then she looked down at her pink damask rose—it was withered.
The Damask Rose (No. 5) remains to us under the same name, telling its own history.
Aminta's cheeks unrolled their deep damask rose at the abrupt intrusion of the name.
Thou eating canker-worm, that preyest upon the opening bud, and turnest the damask-rose into livid yellowness!
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