damassé
French, noun
damassé is spelled D-A-M-A-S-S-É (7 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written French, the 150,781st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Damassé is a French masculine noun meaning “the fabric damassé, which is woven figured like damask” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of damasser. Without its accent, damasse is a different word: “first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of damer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Linge de table qui est ou à fleurs ou à personnages”.
What does damassé mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinethe fabric damassé, which is woven figured like damask
verb
- 1
past participle of damasser
verb
- 1
first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of damer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Étoffe ou linge fabriqué en façon de damas.
noun: 1. Linge de table qui est ou à fleurs ou à personnages.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of damassé
- damassés plural
- damassée feminine
- damassées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is damassé in French?
damassé appears about once in every 22 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).