Gaming table [ Sports & Gaming accessories ]
… thought that this colour was used to imitate billards tables, which themselves were tainted green as a reminder of the lawns on which the game was originally played. 4 . Abraham De Moivre, Faro and Rouge et Noir (London: Printed for J. … associated with gaming. In an anonymous 1761 treatise on gaming the author concludes that: ‘Gaming’s a fiend with Harpy Claws and Eyes, Of Paper Substance, but prodigious Size: Which like Eve’s Serpent wears seducing Smiles, And when it … hinted at in literary works of the time. The green baize – which, as we have seen, was initially designed to evoke the lawn on which billiards was played – led Alexander Pope to liken it to a green battlefield during the game of Ombre …
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