baize

[ beyz ]

noun

1. a soft, usually green, woolen or cotton fabric resembling felt, used chiefly for the tops of billiard tables.
2. an article of this fabric or of a fabric resembling it.

verb (used with object)

, baized, baiz·ing.

1. to line or cover with baize.

baize

/ beɪz /

noun

1. a woollen fabric resembling felt, usually green, used mainly for the tops of billiard tables

verb

1. tr to line or cover with such fabric

Word History and Origins

Origin of baize¹

1570–80; earlier bayes < French baies (noun), Old French ( estoffes fabrics) baies, feminine plural of bai (adj.) bay ⁵

Word History and Origins

Origin of baize¹

C16: from Old French baies , plural of baie baize, from bai reddish brown, bay ⁵, perhaps the original colour of the fabric

Example Sentences

The paper and the poker are abandoned, chairs are drawn towards the baize-covered table.

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Shrieking inarticulate anathema, he rushed downstairs, the man in the green baize apron following at his heels.

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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.

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Kitty Tynan thought of the unopened letter in a woman's handwriting in the green baize desk in her mother's house.

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The room was divided by a green-baize curtain which concealed the domestic arrangements and the oil-stove.

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