baize
/beɪz/
baize noun: a thick, soft, usually woolen cloth resembling felt; often colored green and used for coverings on card tables, billiard and snooker tables, etc.
Noun
baize (countable and uncountable, plural baizes)
- A thick, soft, usually woolen cloth resembling felt; often colored green and used for coverings on card tables, billiard and snooker tables, etc.
- A coarse woolen material with a long nap; usually dyed in plain colors.
- 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...1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- 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.1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Verb
baize (third-person singular simple present baizes, present participle baizing, simple past and past participle baized)
Proper noun capitalized: Baize
Baize (plural Baizes)
- A surname.
baize meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
baize in Tamil
- முரட்டுக் கம்பளி விரிப்பு
baize in Urdu
- موٹی بانات
baize in Malayalam
- മേശപ്പുറത്തും മറ്റും വിരിക്കുന്ന തുണി
Forms of baize
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | baizes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | baizes |
| present participle | baizing |
| past participle | baized |
| past | baized |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Baizes |
Origin of baize
From French baies, feminine plural of adjective bai (“bay-colored”) mistaken as a singular noun.
Words formed from baize
Phrases with baize
Words that rhyme with baize
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- amaze
- appraise
- craze
- fraise
- gaze
- phrase
- mayonnaise
- ablaze
- braise
- chaise
- lase
- liaise
- malaise
- maze
- peise
- bayes
- bolognese
- braize
- braze
- days
- daze
- emprise
- laze
- overglaze
- praise
- reyse
- ukase
- upraise
- abbes
- abrase
- acraze
- affrays
- arrays
- assays
- bays
- bayze
- blays
- bordelaise
- borrowing days
- brays
- cays
- chays
- clays
- conveys
- crays
- crème anglaise
- decays
- delays
Questions about baize
- What does baize mean?
- Baize means a thick, soft, usually woolen cloth resembling felt; often colored green and used for coverings on card tables, billiard and snooker tables, etc.
- What is baize in Tamil?
- Baize in Tamil is முரட்டுக் கம்பளி விரிப்பு. See Baize meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is baize?
- Baize can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce baize?
- Baize is pronounced /beɪz/.
- What is the plural of baize?
- The plural of baize is baizes.
Words near baize in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: baize (page history and authors); Baize (page history and authors); baize (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); baize (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); baize (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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