bayze
/beɪz/
bayze is the obsolete form of baize.
Meaning of baize
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
Forms of bayze
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Words that rhyme with bayze
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- amaze
- appraise
- craze
- fraise
- gaze
- phrase
- mayonnaise
- ablaze
- braise
- chaise
- lase
- liaise
- malaise
- maze
- peise
- baize
- bayes
- bolognese
- braize
- braze
- days
- daze
- emprise
- laze
- overglaze
- praise
- reyse
- ukase
- upraise
- abbes
- abrase
- acraze
- affrays
- arrays
- assays
- bays
- blays
- bordelaise
- borrowing days
- brays
- cays
- chays
- clays
- conveys
- crays
- crème anglaise
- decays
- delays
Questions about bayze
- What is bayze the obsolete form of?
- Bayze is the obsolete form of baize.
- How do you pronounce bayze?
- Bayze is pronounced /beɪz/.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: bayze (page history and authors); baize (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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