What is "baize"

Usage examples of "baize".

Into the dossier it goes, and eventually the Firm, in Their tireless search for negotiable skills, will summon him under Whitehall, to observe him in his trances across the blue baize fields and the terrible paper gaming, his eyes rolled back into his head reading old, glyptic old graffiti on his own sockets.

Return of Eden McCall by Judith Duncan Chapter 1 Lyers of cigarette smoke hung over the four pool tables, as if trapped there by the wide brass shades suspended low over the green baize surfaces.

March, and though the sun was shining brightly outside, and the old porter wore his linen jacket, as if it were already spring, there was a cold draught down the staircase, and the Baroness instinctively made haste up the steps, and was glad when she reached the big swinging door covered with red baize and studded with smart brass nails, which gave access to the grand apartment.

Fennella was the start of the direct path straight back to the real world, the restaurants, the shaded lights, stained-glass over green baize tables, women in expensive gowns playing seemingly expensive games that were at root primitively simple, even bars where the bartender bothered to remember your name.

Looking half in a daze, Sperling had been staring across the green baize at his lost fortune.

Mahnmut stopped in the process of downloading the green baize card table.

There was a sealed coffin in the first cubicle, the second was empty but a green baize curtain was drawn across the third.

Late in the evenings club members with a taste for whist or macao could frequently be found at the green baize tables, still elegantly garbed in the gowns they had worn earlier to a ball.

But the green baize door of the kitchen had hardly swung to behind her when she ran across the hall and into the study.

On this Donald disappeared beyond the green baize door, and Andrew did as he had been bidden for the second time he waited.

The house was very quiet save for a subdued clatter of pans from behind the baize door at the side of the staircase.

He beamed at her without speaking and led her through the baize door to where Anneke was waiting in a comfortable sitting room.

Instead she went briskly down the staircase through the baize door at the back of the hall and wished Anneke, Has and the housemaids goodbye.

At the back of his counter was a green baize curtain, and behind that was a passage, leading straight to our kitchen.

The justices of the peace, hastily convoked and four in number, sat on the platform, with a semicircular backing of high gray screens and a green baize barrier in front of them, so that their legs and feet were quite invisible.