billiards
A two-player cue sport played with two cue balls and one red ball, on a snooker sized…A two-player cue sport played with two cue balls and one red ball, on a snooker sized table.
Meaning
2 senses(UK, uncountable)A two-player cue sport played with two cue balls and one red ball, on a snooker sized table.
He was playing billiards in the casino.
Karambolagen, Billard
билья́рдbilʹjárd
білья́рдbilʹjárd
any of several games played on rectangular cloth-covered table (with cushioned edges) in which long tapering cue sticks are used to propel ivory (or composition) balls
(US, uncountable)Any of various games played on a tabletop, usually with several balls, one or more of which is hit by a cue.
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Origin
From French billard, originally referring to the wooden cue stick, diminutive of Old FrencFrom French billard, originally referring to the wooden cue stick, diminutive of Old French bille (“log, tree trunk”), from Vulgar Latin *bilia, probably of Gaulish origin (compare Old Irish bile (“large tree, tree trunk”)), from Proto-Celtic *belyos (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yos (“leaf”), from *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”).
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