baize
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9.9
- noun
- /beɪz/
:
paño
- The copy-books are laid out side by side on the green baize table.
- green baize
- baize table
- covered with baize
Examples
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The cards slapped down on the baize blackjack tables in mind-numbing regularity.
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We were escorted through a green baize door, down a narrow service corridor and into the butler's pantry.
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The worn green baize, the smell of cigarettes.
Fiction book (1998) -
The copy-books are laid out side by side on the green baize table.
Academic text (1990) -
Coins were counted out on a piece of green baize, and Claude left the prison of bankrupt dreams.
Fiction book (1992) -
Just inside the door, which was lined on the back with green baize held in place with brass studs, was a large gong.
Fiction book (1999) -
Mr. Willoughby's man entered with a mahogany humidor, which he placed on the green baize.
Fiction book (1998) -
A matched pair of antique flintlock dueling pistols lay inside the box, snugly cushioned in compartments covered with green baize.
Fiction book (1999) -
Coins were counted out on a piece of green baize, and Claude left the prison of bankrupt dreams.
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Etymology
Baize comes from the Spanish word bayeta, which meant a 'rough wool cloth' from the town Bayonne. Because this cloth was thick and slightly fuzzy and made a smooth playing surface, it became the usual cover for game and pool tables, so baize now means the green cloth used on billiard and card tables.