baize

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At the head of the stairs I came upon a door which had once been of red baize, although now the baize was in tatters.

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  1. noun An often bright-green cotton or woolen material napped to imitate felt and used chiefly as a cover for gaming tables.

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  • And that's when the dice jumped straight up off the baize, a good six-inch hop into the air, and came down Snake Eyes, the old signal. —  Vigorish
  • They are both covered with green baize, and send their best love. —  Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record
  • It's castin' pearls afore swine to play for half on 'em about here Fuller, with both hands posed on the baize-clad head of the 'cello, which the small boy had surrendered to him some moments before, shook his fat ribs at this so heartily that Sennacherib himself re laxed into a surly grin, and then Ferdinand felt him self at liberty to laugh also You are rather severe upon your audience, Mr. Eld," he said A tongue like a file, our Sennacherib's got," said the mild Isaiah. —  Aunt Rachel
  • "Look here, guvnor, if you want any little 'elp, I was barman one time at the 'Elephant But I caught up my bag, swung off the step, and, squeezing between a horse's wet nose and the back of a brougham, gained the pavement, where a red-baize carpet divided the ranks of the crowd Hullo!" —  Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales
  • Cover strips of wood with baize, and nail them tight against a door, on the casing The following are the causes of smoky chimneys. —  A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
 

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  1. French baies, from pl. of bai, bay-colored, from Latin badius.

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  1. Early modern English also bays, bayes, bease, baies, from Old French baies (Godefroy), plural, also in singular baye (Cotgrave), baize (whence also Dutch baai, Low German baje (later G. boi) = Swedish boj = Danish baj = Russian baika, baize; cf. diminutive Spanish bayeta = Portuguese baeta = Italian bajetta, baize), from bai (= Spanish bayo = Portuguese baio = Italian bajo), bay-colored. The word is thus properly plural of bay, formerly used also in the singular: see bay.
  2. from baize, n.
 

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