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BAIZE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A bright green fabric napped to resemble felt; used to cover gaming tables
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("baize" is a kind of...):
cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)
Context examples:
An enormous roll of green baize had arrived from Northampton, and been cut out by Mrs. Norris (with a saving by her good management of full three-quarters of a yard), and was actually forming into a curtain by the housemaids, and still the play was wanting; and as two or three days passed away in this manner, Edmund began almost to hope that none might ever be found.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
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