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Rfv-sense: coarse woollen stuff. Other dictionaries seem to use the word frieze for coarse woollen cloth, wheras baize is supposedly a finer material resembling felt, and mainly used for billiard tables (current sense #2 of baize). Anyone who knows? --Hekaheka (talk) 12:29, 22 September 2013 (UTC)Reply
Ok, ok, this wasn't interesting, so I'll have to draw my own conclusions. The modern references in Onelook seem to be more in agreement with the former second definition than the first. The references to coarse woollen stuff are to be found in Webster's 1913 and 1828 editions, but even the on-line Webster's is in line with other modern dictionaries. Thus, I moved the "gaming table material" -sense first and tagged "coarse woollen stuff" as dated. --Hekaheka (talk) 11:33, 22 October 2013 (UTC)Reply
