baize
Americannoun
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a soft, usually green, woolen or cotton fabric resembling felt, used chiefly for the tops of billiard tables.
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an article of this fabric or of a fabric resembling it.
verb (used with object)
noun
verb
Etymology
Origin of baize
1570–80; earlier bayes < French baies (noun), Old French ( estoffes fabrics) baies, feminine plural of bai (adj.) bay 5
Example Sentences
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"They would have the whole conversation, then he would go home and type it all up. Then they would meet at Broadcasting House across a green baize table and read the script to each other."
From BBC • Oct. 12, 2022
Emma and her guests sit round a table with some tiny plastic cricketers playing on a green baize pitch.
From The Guardian • Jul. 14, 2019
Meanwhile, Bristol's Trump was tipped to be the new O'Sullivan of the baize after his breakthrough year, in which he won the China Open, UK Championship and reached the World Championship final.
From BBC • Dec. 6, 2014
In the dining area, with its cream-leather furnishings and 18th-century casts, the walls are lined with a billiard-table baize that stops short of the exposed-beam and brick-hearth soffits.
From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2014
Animated by this new certainty—choosing the right dress had surely helped—she crossed the hallway, pushed through the baize door and strode along the checkered tiled corridor to the kitchen.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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