baize

n. family name

v. cover with baize fabric; line with baize

n. coarse woolen or cotton fabric napped to imitate felt (used mainly to cover pool tables or card tables and for curtains and linings); item made of this fabric

Baize is a coarse woollen (or in cheaper variants cotton) cloth, sometimes incorrectly called "felt" in American English based on a similarity in appearance. It is most often used on snooker and billiards tables to cover the and . The surface finish of baize is not very fine (and thus increases friction, perceptibly slowing the balls down, from a pool player's perspective), and has a perceptible nap. Baize is the preferred cloth for tables in snooker, in which understanding of the effects of the nap is part of the game. But this cloth is generally not favored for use on high-end pool or carom billiards tables; instead, napless worsted wool is preferred. For such use it is traditionally dyed green, in mimicry of a lawn (see Cue sport, "History"), thus the common phrase "the green baize" (though today a wide variety of colors are available for tables, while for other uses such as clothing it has always been available in other colors).
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Noun
1. a bright green fabric napped to resemble felt; used to cover gaming tables
(hypernym) fabric, cloth, material, textile

n. Baize, family name

(n.)
A coarse woolen stuff with a long nap; -- usually dyed in plain colors.