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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Williams' cautiousness about going under the knife suggests he still has ambitions to continue on the baize for years to come - and who can blame him.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
"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
Other parts of the baize had readings of 2,300 counts a second.
From The Guardian • Mar. 6, 2016
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
“A gloomy wood,” according to the one playbill, was represented by a few shrubs in pots, green baize on the floor, and a cave in the distance.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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