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balliards

balliards is the obsolete form of billiards.

Meaning of billiards

Noun

billiards (uncountable)

  1. (UK) A two-player cue sport played with two cue balls and one red ball, on a snooker sized table.
    • He was playing billiards in the casino.
  2. (US) Any of various games played on a tabletop, usually with several balls, one or more of which is hit by a cue.

Questions about balliards

What is balliards the obsolete form of?
Balliards is the obsolete form of billiards.

Words near balliards in the dictionary

  1. Balli
  2. ballia
  3. Balliang
  4. Balliang East
  5. Balliao
  6. balliards
  7. ballibetoe
  8. ballibetoes
  9. ballibuntl
  10. ballibuntls
  11. ballicater

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