The four edges of the table feature rubber edges covered in baize called " cushions ". From LearnThat.org.
The doors themselves were covered with green baize. From Wordnik.com. [The Minstrel A Collection of Poems] Reference
Bostwick sat down and leaned across the soiled green baize. From Wordnik.com. [The Furnace of Gold] Reference
We were shut away from the rest of the house by the baize door. From Wordnik.com. ['Me and Nobbles'] Reference
They are both covered with green baize, and send their best love. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
Very quietly he pushed back the swinging baize door and looked in. From Wordnik.com. [The Slave of Silence] Reference
A green baize door separated the kitchen and offices from the hall. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
Paul pushed the baize-covered door open and first bowed the lady out. From Wordnik.com. [High Noon A New Sequel to 'Three Weeks' by Elinor Glyn] Reference
The library table should be massive and the top laid with crimson baize. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
Round the room he sat in were hung a number of fiddles in green-baize bags. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
In the daytime it was draped in a coarse green baize spotted with ink and grease. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
You will find it an advantage to cover the shelves and their sides with green baize. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
Reuben on first entering his uncle's house had laid the green baize bag upon the table. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
He was dressed in a green baize roundabout and faded blue overalls, worn sadly at the knee. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859] Reference
At this moment Reuben Gold came swinging along the road with a green baize bag under his arm. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
The green baize door was there still, but when he came into his old domain he drew a long breath. From Wordnik.com. ['Me and Nobbles'] Reference
It was only necessary to swing back the baize door to hear all that was taking place in the study. From Wordnik.com. [The Slave of Silence] Reference
Scattered over that floor were numerous tables covered with red baize whereon refreshments were served. From Wordnik.com. [Inns and Taverns of Old London] Reference
The carpet was of red baize with a Turkish border, and figured in the middle like an harlequin's jacket. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808] Reference
Nothing in their own free lives hitherto had suggested baize doors through which they "ought not to go.". From Wordnik.com. [Queensland Cousins] Reference
Make sure that it is thoroughly dry or covered with baize before you place a single volume on the shelves. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
Outside the green baize door was a chattering mob of girls, all apparently talking at the top of their voices. From Wordnik.com. [Judy of York Hill] Reference
Each green baize bag was closely tied at the neck, and suspended at an equal height with the rest upon a nail. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
Sennacherib and Isaiah appeared in different directions, each with a baize-clothed fiddle tucked beneath his arm. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
Sometimes he strayed along the big passage and peeped through the green baize door which led down the front stairs. From Wordnik.com. ['Me and Nobbles'] Reference
On no account must you paint or varnish your shelves, unless, of course, you intend to cover them with baize or felt. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
I felt in my pocket and found that I had one solitary lonely dime, and swinging aside the green baize door, I entered. From Wordnik.com. [Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers] Reference
The hall was galleried to the top; and, lo, the entrance door at the top was covered with green baize and brass nails. From Wordnik.com. [Real Ghost Stories] Reference
The meeting was held round a baize-covered table, which was strewn with heaps of papers and well provided with ink-wells. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Child 1894] Reference
Winter, then Second-Lieutenant Winter, with his ledger-like book and his green-baize-covered table, was a familiar figure. From Wordnik.com. [The 23rd (Service) Battalion Royal Fusiliers (First Sportsman's) A Record of its Services in the Great War, 1914-1919] Reference
He put down the spoon he was polishing, discarded his green baize apron, donned his coat, and made his dignified way to the library. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
And that's when the dice jumped straight up off the baize, a good six-inch hop into the air, and came down Snake Eyes, the old signal. From Wordnik.com. [Vigorish] Reference
We passed under this baize curtain to observe the other arrangements, from whence we could easily discern the audience as they entered. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838] Reference
On the ground near him lay his green baize bag, and rolling about in all directions, some apples, one or two still remaining in the bag. From Wordnik.com. [Louis' School Days A Story for Boys] Reference
When a skin is properly cleaned and finished, it may be lined with red or black cloth, or baize, and a "pounced" border of cloth attached. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
It is a mere lovers 'quarrel, and is only the prelude to more folly, like the blank green baize curtain, between the play and the farce. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
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