Word: damask
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...Ananias. This is the house where Saul (later Saint Paul) was baptized after being healed of blindness. Wander down Straight Street (also referred to as Via Recta), and allow the scent of cardamom and roasting coffee to waft you back to Ottoman trading days. Gaze at the stalls selling damask roses and leeches. Step into the 18th century courtyard of Khan Suleiman Pasha, once a caravansary on the Silk Road...
...executive director. More importantly, to participate in this Harvardian opportunity, one must be able to take pleasure in the gloriously pompous and refined traditions of France, such as the subtle art of formal letter-writing and the oligarchic conviction that true science can only be accomplished within damask walls and under frescoed vaults. It is preferable also to hold an abiding interest in personalized swords and marmoreal likenesses. Still, for those Harvard students pondering the many ways our tuition payments can pay dividends, the cost of this most exclusive and, one might add, priceless angle on Paris may well be?...
They marched six abreast across the great square like some damask-clad, miter-capped army, the Cardinals in scarlet bringing up the rear. More than 2,600 bishops, the largest such gathering in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, took seats on 330-ft.-long bleachers in St. Peter's Basilica and craned like schoolboys for a view of the farmer's son who had called them here to ... talk. About what? "About everything," one prelate predicted. "And a few things besides...