/ beɪz; NAmE / noun
[ U ] a type of thick cloth made of wool that is usually green, used especially for covering card tables and billiard , snooker or pool tables
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WORD ORIGIN
late 16th cent.: from French baies , feminine plural of bai chestnut-coloured, treated as a singular noun, from Latin badius . The name is presumably from the original colour of the cloth, although several colours are recorded.