green cloth

Pool table cover

Green cloth is fabric dyed green, but the term specifically evokes the baize covering of billiard tables, card tables, and gambling surfaces.

The balls rolled across the green cloth.

By extension, green cloth suggests gambling or gaming environments.

In British historical usage, the Board of Green Cloth was a royal household department that managed domestic affairs.

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green clothred cloth

Dyed textile, crimson hue

purple cloth

material type

green clothleather

Tanned animal skin

leather upholstery · vinyl · plastic · metal surface · metal

gaming surface

green clothhardwood floor

Solid lumber ground covering

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G