bayze
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bayze (countable and uncountable, plural bayzes)
- Obsolete form of baize.
- 1703, William Dampier, A Voyage to New Holland:
- The chief commodities that the European ships bring hither, are linen cloaths, both coarse and fine, some woollens also, as bayzes, searges, perpetuanas, &c.
References[edit]
- “bayze”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.