baize

How To Use baize In A Sentence

• When she had mentioned a games room before I had imagined a snug cubbyhole where several men would be sat around a baize table playing cards and smoking cigars.
• In the winter, a muffin man's baize-covered tray was laden mainly with crumpets.
• (* baize is the green felt fabric used to cover gaming tables) Mode d'Emploi
• He set it down carefully on the baize cloth.
• The interactive TV service will consist of a looped series of images and sounds, including clips of snooker balls rolling across the green baize, frisbees flying through the air, cat toys and cartoon characters such as Top Cat.
• Fox opened the green baize door and the Russian passed through. CONFESSIONAL
• The brass plate and escutcheon are inlaid, and the interior includes an ebonized penholder, ivory grips, the original baize lining, and two original lead glass ink bottles.
• The women affect parti-coloured petticoats of home-made baize or woollen stuff, dyed blue, scarlet, brown, or orange; a scalloped cape of the same material bound with some contrasting hue; and a white or coloured head-kerchief, sometimes topped by the _carapuça_, but rarely by the vulgar 'billycock' of the Canaries. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
• Cloths manufaftured from the above wool are fix quar - ters broad duffles; fix quarter broad blue milled cloths, at from 4S. to 10%. per yard; three quarters to yard broad leys, iarges, Ihafts, plaidings, baizes, linfey woolfeys, jefl« mies, and ftripped apron ftufts. The statistical account of Scotland. Drawn up from the communications of the ministers of the different parishes
• There, just across the asphalt, lay the cemetery, and in it a newly erected green tent covering a freshly dug grave, two rows of chairs covered in green baize waiting to receive us just as the earth waited to receive the casket.