Baize
[beɪz] or [bez]
Definition
(noun.) a bright green fabric napped to resemble felt; used to cover gaming tables.
Typist: Tito--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A coarse woolen stuff with a long nap; -- usually dyed in plain colors.
Typist: Lycurgus
Definition
n. a coarse woollen cloth with a long nap used mainly for coverings linings &c. but in some countries for clothing.
Typed by Allan
Examples
- We must have a curtain, said Tom Bertram; a few yards of green baize for a curtain, and perhaps that may be enough. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- You are aware, Mr. Holmes, that our college doors are double--a green baize one within and a heavy oak one without. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- There is an inner baize door, too, but the night being warm he did not close it when he came upstairs. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The front should have either _dark_ blue, maroon, or green baize curtains, so made as to draw right across. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- A gloomy wood, according to the one playbill, was represented by a few shrubs in pots, green baize on the floor, and a cave in the distance. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Betteredge, attired for the occasion in a fisherman's red cap, and an apron of green baize, met us in the outer hall. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
Typist: Lucas