Baize

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  • noun. An often bright-green woolen or cotton material napped to imitate felt and used chiefly as a cover for gaming tables.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To cover or line with baize.
  • noun. A coarse woolen stuff with a nap on one side, and dyed in plain colors, usually red or green.
  • noun. Any article, as a table-cover, a curtain, etc., made of baize; specifically, in theaters, the plain curtain lowered at the end of a play.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A coarse woolen stuff with a long nap; -- usually dyed in plain colors.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A coarse woolen stuff with a long nap; -- usually dyed in plain colors.
  • noun. A thick woolen cloth used for coverings on card tables etc. Note that the covering of billiard and snooker tables is often referred to as the Green Baize but is actually a fine woolen cloth and not baize.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a bright green fabric napped to resemble felt; used to cover gaming tables
  • Word Usage
    "(* baize is the green felt fabric used to cover gaming tables)"
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    cloth  fabric  material  textile  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Blaise  Blase  Chevrolets  Hayes  Hays  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    verb-form
    baizes