Noun

1. A coarse woolen stuff with a long nap; -- usually dyed in plain colors.
   • 1719: Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

     my goods being all English manufacture, such as cloths, stuffs, baize, and things particularly valuable and desirable in the country, I found means to sell them to a very great advantage...

   • 1885: Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

     At the further end, a flight of stairs mounted to a door covered with a red baize; and through this, Mr. Utterson was at last received into the doctor's cabinet.

1. A thick woolen cloth used for coverings on card tables etc. Note that the covering of billiard and snooker tables is often referred to as the Green Baize but is actually a fine woolen cloth and not baize.