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▪ I. baize, n.|beɪz|
Forms: 6–8 bayes, 7 baies, bease, bayz(e, 7–9 bays, 7– baize.
[a. F. baies (1570 in Godefroy, ‘les baies et sarges’), pl. fem. used subst. of adj. bai:—L. badius chestnut-coloured, bay; so named probably from its original colour. The same material is called in It. bajetta (Florio 1598), Sp. bayeta, Du. baai, Da. bai, Sw. boi. The plural form of the adopted word was soon misunderstood, and treated as a collective sing. (occas. with pl. bayses), whence the spelling bayze, baize, rare bef. 1800, but now quite established; the etymological sing. bay is, however, also found.]
1. a. A coarse woollen stuff, having a long nap, now used chiefly for linings, coverings, curtains, etc., in warmer countries for articles of clothing, e.g. shirts, petticoats, ponchos; it was formerly, when made of finer and lighter texture, used as a clothing material in Britain also.
1578in Beck Drapers' Dict. 17 Blewe and blacke bayse. 1586Harrison England i. ii. v. 132 The wares they carrie out of the realme are..baies, bustian, mockadoes, etc. 1635N. R. Camden's Hist. Eliz. i. 101 Those light stuffes which they call Bayes and Sayes. 1667Pepys Diary (1879) IV. 250 A cloak of Colchester bayze. 1712Arbuthnot John Bull (1755) 9 The price of broad cloath, wool and bayses. 1732Acc. Workhouses 51, 70 yards of red bays..for under petticoats. 1801Felton Carriages I. 220 The Well of a Carriage is lined with linen or baize. 1882Beck Drapers' Dict. 14 Bays, bayze, baize..was first introduced here in 1561.
b. attrib.
1634Brereton Trav. (1844) 52 He sat up in bed, and was in a thin bease waistcoat. 1834C. Mathews Let. 20 Jan. in Mrs. Mathews Memoirs C.M. (1839) IV. xiii. 256 He sat down contentedly before the green baize table. 1837Hawthorne Twice-told T. (1851) II. vi. 90 Fishermen, in red baize shirts. 1853Dickens Bleak Ho. xli. 405 There is an inner baize door too.
2. A curtain, table-cover, etc. of baize.
1862Lond. Rev. 30 Aug. 193 The great baize will soon fall down. 1880Browning Dram. Idylls, Clive 103 Cocky fancied that a clerk must feel Quite sufficient honor in bending over one green baize.
3. attrib., as in baize-factor.
1766Ann. Reg. 53/2 A baize factor has presented the Mayor of Colchester..a rich gold chain. 1852Dickens Bleak Ho. xxvi. §1 Gentlemen of the green baize road, who could discourse from personal experience of foreign galleys and home treadmills.
▪ II. baize, v.
[f. prec. n.]
To cover or line with baize. Hence baized ppl. a., baizing vbl. n.
1830Miss Mitford Village Ser. iv. (1863) 250 Baizing the door of the library; and new painting the hall. 1882J. Baker Hist. Scarboro' 160 Pews..being baized or cushioned. |