Talk:damask

"Damas"" in French
may have several meanings. For example ( and even nowadays),  in a (rather whealthy and conservative) french family , it may be used by :

-the land-lady, proud about her heavy damas silk curtains (which were offered to her on her wedding)  -  her sunday  damas   table-cloth and napkins (made in fact of very thin and intricately embroidered cotton) brought back 15 years ago from South Africa by her husband  - of her damas   (= Hesperis) in her flower garden ...

- while the land-lord, after a good meal washed down with a fine old hot red wine (made of black damas  grape)    -  and while smoking a damas  (small fragrant Habana cigar) - and sipping a fine very old damas   prune liquor - might show you proudly the damas   blade of his brand new  hunting knife ( see damask steel  in WP:en ), made in the USA by Buck knives (or in Solingen  , Germany)  - and, hanging over the fire-place  the damas   arab sword his great-grand-father looted after the taking of Abd-el-Kader 's   smalah in Algeria (1843)  -  and the Lefaucheux ( see WP )  hunting shot-gun , in the family since 1850, converted from lateral to central percussion around 1900, which he dared fire many years ago, but only once, and with a very light powder-loaded cartridge, since he feared its beautiful  watered-steel   damas     tubes would not stand modern powder ...  T.y.   ,  Arapaima 09:39, 15 January 2010 (UTC)


 * "Staircase thought" ( BTW, what is the english sentence for "esprit de l'escalier" ?  ) : and of course the landlady 'll keep you from having a second helping of  damas   prune liquor, arguing you have had  enough , and that your cheeks are now not "damask rose"-tinted, but  " lie-de-vin"  (wine-dregs) coloured  ...Arapaima 10:00, 15 January 2010 (UTC)


 * User:Arapaima: we also say "esprit de l'escalier". Sometimes French is just the way to say things... it's that je ne sais quoi. Equinox ◑ 21:26, 12 September 2019 (UTC)