baize
/beɪz/noun
mass noun
- a coarse felt-like woollen material that is typically green, used for covering billiard and card tables and for aprons（制作桌球台、牌桌衬面或围裙的）绿色台面呢。
词源
late 16th cent.: from French baies, feminine plural of bai 'chestnut-coloured' （see BAY4）， treated as a singular noun. The name is presumably from the original colour of the cloth， although several colours are recorded.