An often bright-green cotton or woolen material napped to imitate felt and used chiefly as a cover for gaming tables.
[French baies, from pl. of bai, bay-colored, from Latin badius.]
baize
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An often bright-green cotton or woolen material napped to imitate felt and used chiefly as a cover for gaming tables.
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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IN BRIEF: n. - A bright green fabric napped to resemble felt.
Tutor's tip: The Duke, with several "beys" (titles of respect), wore his "baize" (thick fabric) coat and stood outside listening to the "bays" (animal sounds).
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a bright green fabric napped to resemble felt; used to cover gaming tables
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Baize is a coarse woollen (or in cheaper variants cotton) cloth, sometimes called "felt" in American English based on a similarity in appearance.[citation needed]
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Baize is most often used on snooker and billiards tables to cover the slate and cushions.[citation needed]
The surface finish of baize is not very fine (and thus increases friction, perceptibly slowing the balls down, from a player's perspective). Baize is available with and without a perceptible nap; snooker, in which understanding of the effects of the nap is part of the game, uses the nappy variety, while pocket billiards (pool) and carom billiards use the napless type. Table baize is available in many grades, with pool halls preferring smooth, "fast" worsted woollen baize, while rather more fuzzy, "slow" cloth is commonly used for bar/pub pool.[citation needed]
For gaming use, baize is traditionally dyed green, in mimicry of a lawn (see Cue sport, "History"), thus the common (British English) phrase "the green baize", a synecdochal way to refer to snooker itself. Today, a wide variety of colours are now used for tables (for other uses such as clothing it has always been available in other colours).[citation needed]
At one time, the Green Baize Door (a door to which green baize had been tacked to deaden noise) in a house separated the servants' quarters from the family's living quarters.[citation needed]
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| Translations: Baize |
Dansk (Danish)
n. - billardklæde
Nederlands (Dutch)
groen laken, baai (stof)
Français (French)
n. - tapis de billard, drap de billard, (Tex) serge, reps
v. tr. - recouvrir de serge/d'un tapis de billard
Deutsch (German)
n. - Fries
v. - mit Fries überziehen
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - τσόχα, κετσές
v. - επενδύω με τσόχα
Italiano (Italian)
panno verde
Português (Portuguese)
n. - baeta (f), tecido (m) grosso de lã
Русский (Russian)
сукно (особ. зеленое)
Español (Spanish)
n. - bayeta, tapete verde
v. tr. - forrar (mesas de juego)
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - boj, filt
v. - drapera
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
厚羊毛毯, 粗呢, 台面呢
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 厚羊毛毯, 粗呢, 檯面呢
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 베이즈(당구대 위에 까는 녹색의 모직천)
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ベーズ
v. - ベーズでおおう
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) قماش قطني مضلع, غطاء طاوله البلياردو (فعل) يغطي طاوله بقماش أخضر
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - בייז (אריג צמר עבה), בד-ריפוד לשולחנות ביליארד
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