Baize vs Baized - What's the difference?
baize | baized |
A thick, soft, usually woolen cloth resembling felt; often colored green and used for coverings on card tables, billiard and snooker tables, etc.
(dated) A coarse woolen stuff with a long nap; -- usually dyed in plain colors.
* 1719:
* 1885:
As a noun baize
is a thick, soft, usually woolen cloth resembling felt; often colored green and used for coverings on card tables, billiard and snooker tables, etc.As an adjective baized is
covered with baize.baize
English
Noun
(en noun)- my goods being all English manufacture, such as cloths, stuffs, baize , and things particularly valuable and desirable in the country, I found means to sell them to a very great advantage...
- At the further end, a flight of stairs mounted to a door covered with a red baize ; and through this, Mr. Utterson was at last received into the doctor's cabinet.