BAIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does baize mean? 

• BAIZE (noun)
  The noun BAIZE has 1 sense:

1. a bright green fabric napped to resemble felt; used to cover gaming tables

  Familiarity information: BAIZE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAIZE (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 

At the further end, a flight of stairs mounted to a door covered with red baize; and through this, Mr. Utterson was at last received into the doctor’s cabinet.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“We must have a curtain,” said Tom Bertram; “a few yards of green baize for a curtain, and perhaps that may be enough.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

You are aware, Mr. Holmes, that our college doors are double—a green baize one within and a heavy oak one without.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"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.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

‘Our own colours, green and white.’ Sounds like racing. ‘Green open, white shut.’ That is clearly a signal. ‘Main stair, first corridor, seventh right, green baize.’ This is an assignation.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Glancing in, I saw a line of little green baize tables with small groups of men sitting round, while at one side was a longer one, from which there came a continuous murmur of voices.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The furniture of the room was old-fashioned and dusty; and the green baize on the top of the writing-table had lost all its colour, and was as withered and pale as an old pauper.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Poole swung the axe over his shoulder; the blow shook the building, and the red baize door leaped against the lock and hinges.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The curtain, over which she had presided with such talent and such success, went off with her to her cottage, where she happened to be particularly in want of green baize.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Here Poole motioned him to stand on one side and listen; while he himself, setting down the candle and making a great and obvious call on his resolution, mounted the steps and knocked with a somewhat uncertain hand on the red baize of the cabinet door.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)