“green baize”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

green baize

释义

green baize
[See baize n.]
Baize of a green colour, such as is used to cover office tables or gaming tables; hence used transf. for such a table. Also attrib.
1801C. Wilmot Diary 29 Nov. (1920) 4 Even after trunks, Pocket Books, Writing Cases, Green baize bags, &c., were quietly deliver'd in.1812Dramatic Censor 1811 col. 362 'Tis bekase I'm a poet you see, That I kiver my head with green baize.1843Ecclesiologist II. 31 The carving however being concealed by a green-baize lining.1852[see baize n. 3].c1870B. Harte Brown of Calaveras, He pushed open a green-baize door.1880[see baize n. 2].
Hence green-baized a., covered with green baize.
1836–9Dickens Sk. Boz (1850) 52/1 A small, green-baized, brass-headed-nailed door.1818Keats Let. 7 July (1958) I. 319 A nice carpeted Room with Sofa hair bottomed chairs and green-baized mehogany.

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