Definition of "baizes" [baizes]

• Plural form of baize. (noun)

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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."
• "They settled in different parts of England, and introduced and promoted the manufacture of baizes, serges, crapes, &c."
• "Flannels and baizes are the principal woollen articles made in and near Halifax, together with cloth for the use of the army."