baize
noun /beɪz/
/beɪz/
[uncountable]- a type of thick cloth made of wool that is usually green, used especially for covering card tables and billiard, snooker or pool tablesTopics Sports: other sportsc2Word Originlate 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.