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Webster 1913 Edition

(bāz)

Noun.

[For

bayes

, pl. fr. OF.

baie

; cf. F.

bai

bay-colored. See

a color.]

A coarse woolen stuff with a long nap; – usually dyed in plain colors.

A new black

baize

waistcoat lined with silk.

Pepys.

Noun.

A coarse woolen stuff, with a long nap, sometimes frized on one side, without wale, being wove with two treadles like flannel.