damasse

damasse (countable and uncountable, plural damasses)

1. Alternative spelling of damassé
   • 1879 May 3, The Rural New-Yorker: A Journal for the Suburban and Country Home, volume XXXVIII, number 18, New York, N.Y., page 287:

     Both in variety of design and of combination, the damasses offered this season are superior to any goods ever before put on the market.

   • 1881, Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor and Industries of New Jersey, for the Year Ending October 31st, 1881, Somerville, N.J.: Edward B. Porter, page 152:

     Fine grades of damasse dress goods are made with combinations of grosgrain, satin, brocade and grenadines.

   • 1902, Amelia E[dith Huddleston] Barr, A Song of a Single Note: A Love Story, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, pages 168–169:

     […]; a parcel also found in the boat was opened and its contents spread out for examination. They consisted of a piece of damasse for a lady’s gown, some lace, two pairs of silk stockings, two pairs of gloves, some ribbon, and a fan that had been mended.

• IPA^(key): /da.mas/
• Homophones: damasses, damassent

damasse

1. first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of damer

damasse

1. third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of damare