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Baize vs Braize - What's the difference?

baize | braize |

As nouns the difference between baize and braize

is that 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 while braize is a european marine fish, pagrus pagrus , allied to the american scup; the becker the name is sometimes applied to the related species.

As a verb braize is

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baize

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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:
    • 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...
  • * 1885:
    • 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.

    braize

    English

    (wikipedia braize) (Pagrus pagrus)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A European marine fish, Pagrus pagrus , allied to the American scup; the becker. The name is sometimes applied to the related species.
  • A kind of small charcoal used for roasting ore.
  • * 1957 , H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry , p. 216.
    • The fuel was wood, either alone or mixed with peat, or pure peat - as in the north of Lancashire - or mineral coal, but most frequently it was small charcoal, called braise or braize .
  • Meat cooked by braising.

    • Synonyms

    * (fish) braise, brazier

    Verb

    (braiz)
    • braizing meat

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