How To Use Baize In A Sentence
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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.
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In the winter, a muffin man's baize-covered tray was laden mainly with crumpets.
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(* baize is the green felt fabric used to cover gaming tables)
Mode d'Emploi
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He set it down carefully on the baize cloth.
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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.
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Fox opened the green baize door and the Russian passed through.
CONFESSIONAL
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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Flannels and baizes are the principal woollen articles made in and near Halifax, together with cloth for the use of the army.
Rides on Railways
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Has it discovered a dimensional portal through the back of my handy reference shelf into a fustier world with baize lampshades and discreet manservants where it can be happy?
Kenneth Hite's Journal
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When he was given a turn a few minutes later, Jimmy White, seen-it-all-before doyen of the green baize, offered a rather less exclamatory: "Yeah, I think it's good.
Ronnie O'Sullivan crowned prince of the new Power Snooker generation
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He had a pile of khubaizeh too, a hairy green mallow that grew in vacant lots, abandoned buildings, and piles of construction debris.
Day of Honey
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Inferior to these, and lodged behind the green baize door, are the upper servants.
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They fabricate in tliis province much cloth of the coiintrv, such as broad cloths, baizes, and forges.
The geographical and historical dictionary of America and the West Indies : containing an entire translation of the Spanish work of Colonel Don Antonio de Alcedo...with large additions and compilations from modern voyages and travels, and from original an
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Or leaning over the green baize card table, watching while she and Isolde played vingt-et-un.
Sepulchre
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In the end, the 69th National billiards championship held at the Hari Niwas Palace in Jammu will be remembered more for the boardroom tables than the green baize tables.
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They returned with a huge roll of green baize which was then gently placed on top of the groaning air conditioner.
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All the rugs and tablecloths the stores of the town contained were requisitioned for this purpose; green baize and crimson baize, repp curtains and plush, anything, everything remotely suitable, was claimed and cut up to serve as quilts and counterpanes, with the result that the beds looked picturesquely, if not grotesquely, gay.
With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
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A pack of cards appeared and, before anybody could protest, my father's folding card table with the green baize top had been set up.
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Early tests conducted on a billiard table soon dispelled the ideas that bias is a myth in croquet. The noticeable 'draw' (lateral motion) on the fine green baize prompted a more careful examination with a view to ultimately testing on grass.
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This is a modified billiards table, covered with green baize, as is normal, but oval rather than rectangular and without pockets — a feature of carambola, where players score points by "caroming" their cue ball off the opponent's cue and object balls on a single shot.
Orozco Proves That Size Isn't Everything
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Cushion - rubber surrounds covered with baize.
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And next time you're invited to a house-warming party, make sure to wear your tuxedo or sequined dress and look for a green baize table in the living room.
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The leisure centre has put in an application to City of York Council for a ‘track betting licence’ - allowing it to pitch betting stands allowing punters to put some cash on the action on the green baize.
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Fox opened the green baize door and the Russian passed through.
CONFESSIONAL
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Before them was a table covered in green baize and behind it Mr Perkins.
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In terms of his temperament, Advani is very different from Agarwal and it is because of this, lovers of the green baize sport would be confident that this young man will go on to become India's first great professional snooker player.
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With oil prices soaring and revolution in the air in North Africa and the Middle East, it's little wonder investors want to take a few chips off the green baize and cash them in.
No Getting Away From It, Swiss Francs and Gold Are Still the Surest Havens
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He come out of a green-baize door — the very place I can point out to you, and the selfsame door, miss, though false to the accuracy of the mind that knows it, by reason of having been covered up red, and all the brass buttons lost to it in them new-fangled upholsteries.
Erema
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Nor were the crowd to be denied, for they tore the black baize cloth to shreds in their scramble for souvenirs.
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They returned with a huge roll of green baize which was then gently placed on top of the groaning air conditioner.
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It is the latest in a long line of triumphs for the player but only last year the 26-year-old was on the brink of giving up the green baize due to a lack of funds, following a bout of defeats.
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At the same time, away from the competitive baize, she was a loyal and warm-hearted personality.
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If a streaker is flicked on to the green baize pitch, play must cease until the opposing player has ‘apprehended’ him or her, by flicking their policeman into position to make an ‘arrest’.
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‘I was Merlin the Magician of the green baize,’ he added, referring to his years on top of the snooker world.
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No; I ordered a dozen new baizes at that time, but I do not remember who they were for.
The Teacher Or, Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young
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Well! it was a Saturday night, and I'd my baize apron on, and the tails of my bed-gown pinned together behind, down on my knees, pipeclaying the kitchen, when a knock comes to the back door.
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The graphics are OK - I mean how hard is it to draw green baize? - while the players slightly resemble their real-life incarnations.
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Inspirational talent from Northern Ireland whose rapidity around the green baize earned him the nickname "Hurricane" Higgins.
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On the contrary, it was considerably "scuffed;" and the green baize wrappers upon his limbs were faded to a greenish brown.
The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness
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On the baize, the balls roll on, but the former stars who now commentate cannot resist blathering about the Jester from Leicester or the Wizard of Wishaw.
In praise of ... 'Whispering' Ted Lowe | Editorial
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And yet, away from the green baize, this was the man who was part of a winning team in the Australian surfing championship and who also played in the Aussie Rules first division for 10 years.
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This is a modified billiards table, covered with green baize, as is normal, but oval rather than rectangular and without pockets — a feature of carambola, where players score points by "caroming" their cue ball off the opponent's cue and object balls on a single shot.
Orozco Proves That Size Isn't Everything
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With hands and eyes free, you can soak up the delights of the Balinese countryside: the green baize of the paddy fields, the split gate temples, the daily processions.
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George supped with her, and the two of them sat matily in the parlour behind red curtains, and with a baize-covered parrot between them on the table, when the meal was over, George smoking, and Mrs. Bradley knitting a shapeless garment slowly and very badly.
St Peter's Finger
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Today the main casino, inside a three-star hotel, lies abandoned, its baize tables thick with dust.
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There are people who look like artizans and who never drink anything but champagne, and walk to the tavern on red baize which is laid down from their hut to the tavern.
Letters of Anton Chekhov
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But Manchester snooker fans have one last chance to see the ‘Rocket’ in action before his self-imposed exile from the green baize.
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The man moved off and Adam stepped through a further doorway and followed him through a maze of green baize covered card tables.
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TWO of the greatest ever exponents of hitting a ball on the green baize will soon be helping to raise funds for St Vincent's Hospital, Mountmellick.
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On the baize, the balls roll on, but the former stars who now commentate cannot resist blathering about the Jester from Leicester or the Wizard of Wishaw.
In praise of ... 'Whispering' Ted Lowe | Editorial
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The contrast with the little study at Rugby, with its diamond-paned window, its matchboard panelling surmounted by a paper of one's own choosing, its ledge for photos and ornaments ( "bim ledge" so called), its eggshell blue cupboards, baize curtains and window box, was striking.
A Student in Arms Second Series
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Besides their cloths, however, they work up a considerable quantity of camblets, callimancoes, and baizes, chiefly red and spotted, for domestic consumption.
Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808
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Both players are no strangers to York, having played league and exhibition matches in the city several times over the years, but this is the first time the two green baize giants have come face to face in York.
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But beyond the baize door there were shadows, there was dust, windows draped in cobwebs, before which hung curtains tattered and faded, drooping from their poles like the old banners that, slowly rotting in great cathedrals, sway in the quiet air where no wind is – stirred, perhaps, by the breath of Fame's invisible trumpet to the air of old splendours and glories.
The House of Arden
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On the table, O'Sullivan's two-year wait for a ranking event title continued as he was beaten 6-5 in the second round by Judd Trump, but the Essex player, who turned 36 on Monday, was keen to discuss matters away from the baize.
Ronnie O'Sullivan considers retirement after defeat to Judd Trump
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And next time you're invited to a house-warming party, make sure to wear your tuxedo or sequined dress and look for a green baize table in the living room.
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Down below, the regular punters swarm around hundreds of baize gaming tables.
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At the same time, away from the competitive baize, she was a loyal and warm-hearted personality.
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Between them stood a table covered with green baize, which, reflecting upwards a band of sunlight shining across the chamber, flung upon his already white features the virescent hues of death.
The Hand of Ethelberta
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_Table baize_ is a kind of oilcloth used as a cheap and easily-cleaned covering for tables.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
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And although he may have curbed his gambling, Jimmy still likes playing the odd long shot on the green baize.
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One of the players said baize, which is imitation felt, he said, and Keith more or less conceded this.
Falling Man
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A nice touch is the addition of particle dust effects and chalk marks appearing occasionally on the otherwise immaculate green baize.
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And I know you just must be gutted that your charismatic guru, the voice and the face of so many shifts at the green baize is finally tossing in the chalk.
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They settled in different parts of England, and introduced and promoted the manufacture of baizes, serges, crapes, &c.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 371, May 23, 1829
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Each table is separated from its neighbour by a partition, creating four small, brightly-lit theatres in the larger gloom, theatres in which players duel to the death across the green baize.
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Before them was a table covered in green baize and behind it Mr Perkins.
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