Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dense, felt-like growth of the alga Vaucheria.
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Examples
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But when the partners at Wall Street upstart Toro Trading finished with their questions, they broke out a deck of cards and a green-felt card table.
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I was still attending a private school in Carlsbad, and I stood in the cafeteria looking down at the green-felt gymnasium floor.
1/4 dudemanflab 2008
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But everyone agreed that Zanzic enjoyed fine wine, beautiful women, and the green-felt gaming tables to excess.
The Secret Life of Houdini William Kalush 2006
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But everyone agreed that Zanzic enjoyed fine wine, beautiful women, and the green-felt gaming tables to excess.
The Secret Life of Houdini William Kalush 2006
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A mahogany bar with a brass rail and spittoons ran the length of the room; there were four green-felt pool tables in back that the owner sometimes covered with oilcloth and served free gumbo on, and old men played bourée and dominoes under the wood-bladed fans that hung from the ceiling.
Heaven’s Prisoners James Lee Burke 1988
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A mahogany bar with a brass rail and spittoons ran the length of the room; there were four green-felt pool tables in back that the owner sometimes covered with oilcloth and served free gumbo on, and old men played bourée and dominoes under the wood-bladed fans that hung from the ceiling.
Heaven’s Prisoners James Lee Burke 1988
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A mahogany bar with a brass rail and spittoons ran the length of the room; there were four green-felt pool tables in back that the owner sometimes covered with oilcloth and served free gumbo on, and old men played bourée and dominoes under the wood-bladed fans that hung from the ceiling.
Heaven’s Prisoners James Lee Burke 1988
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A mahogany bar with a brass rail and spittoons ran the length of the room; there were four green-felt pool tables in back that the owner sometimes covered with oilcloth and served free gumbo on, and old men played bourée and dominoes under the wood-bladed fans that hung from the ceiling.
Heaven’s Prisoners James Lee Burke 1988
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Sometimes when I arrive, there will be several guys sitting at a green-felt, leather-railed table, looking at televised sports on one of the three flat screens, waiting for the game to get off.
Forbes.com: News Harry Rivers 2011
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Winn sauntered onto stage wearing nothing more than a green-felt Robin Hood look-a-like finger puppet on his penis at the April
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