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baize
[ beyz ]
noun
- a soft, usually green, woolen or cotton fabric resembling felt, used chiefly for the tops of billiard tables.
- an article of this fabric or of a fabric resembling it.
verb (used with object)
- to line or cover with baize.
baize
/ beɪz /
noun
- a woollen fabric resembling felt, usually green, used mainly for the tops of billiard tables
verb
- tr to line or cover with such fabric
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Origin of baize1
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Example Sentences
The paper and the poker are abandoned, chairs are drawn towards the baize-covered table.
Shrieking inarticulate anathema, he rushed downstairs, the man in the green baize apron following at his heels.
She knew that, because she had seen it in his desk—the desk once belonging to her father, a sloping thing with a green-baize top.
Kitty Tynan thought of the unopened letter in a woman's handwriting in the green baize desk in her mother's house.
The room was divided by a green-baize curtain which concealed the domestic arrangements and the oil-stove.
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