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baize

/beyz/US // beɪz //UK // (beɪz) //

波茨坦,波茨坦织物,波兹曼,波茨坦橡胶

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a soft, usually green, woolen or cotton fabric resembling felt, used chiefly for the tops of billiard tables.
    • : an article of this fabric or of a fabric resembling it.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    baized, baiz·ing.

    • : to line or cover with baize.

Examples

  • The paper and the poker are abandoned, chairs are drawn towards the baize-covered table.

  • Shrieking inarticulate anathema, he rushed downstairs, the man in the green baize apron following at his heels.

  • She knew that, because she had seen it in his desk—the desk once belonging to her father, a sloping thing with a green-baize top.

  • Kitty Tynan thought of the unopened letter in a woman's handwriting in the green baize desk in her mother's house.

  • The room was divided by a green-baize curtain which concealed the domestic arrangements and the oil-stove.

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