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- noun Plural form of
baize .
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Examples
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Besides their cloths, however, they work up a considerable quantity of camblets, callimancoes, and baizes, chiefly red and spotted, for domestic consumption.
Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 Lt-Col. Pinkney
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They settled in different parts of England, and introduced and promoted the manufacture of baizes, serges, crapes, &c.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 371, May 23, 1829 Various
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Flannels and baizes are the principal woollen articles made in and near Halifax, together with cloth for the use of the army.
Rides on Railways Samuel Sidney 1848
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"No; I ordered a dozen new baizes at that time, but I do not remember who they were for."
The Teacher Or, Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young Jacob Abbott 1841
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They fabricate in tliis province much cloth of the coiintrv, such as broad cloths, baizes, and forges.
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Cloths manufaftured from the above wool are fix quar - ters broad duffles; fix quarter broad blue milled cloths, at from 4S. to 10%. per yard; three quarters to yard broad leys, iarges, Ihafts, plaidings, baizes, linfey woolfeys, jefl« mies, and ftripped apron ftufts.
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