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… 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 between Belinda and the Baron in The Rape of the Lock (1714): ‘As many more Manillio forc’d to yield,/And march'd a Victor from the verdant Field’ (Canto III). Pope’s mock-heroic metaphor takes on a more provocative aspect when it is taken up, much later, by William Makepeace …
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