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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Back when there were fewer UK television channels than non-red balls on a snooker table, Steve Davis was king of the green baize.
From BBC • Aug. 9, 2024
Twenty years ago, Luca Brecel was himself gracing the same baize of the Snooker Sports club in Maasmechelen municipality, in Flanders, near the Dutch border.
From BBC • May 2, 2023
Its green baize surface is all but obscured by papers and manuscripts – even, sometimes, a folder or two containing fragments of ancient papyrus.
From The Guardian • Jan. 9, 2020
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
All he noticed was that there were two small tables straight in front of him, each covered with green baize.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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