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Board of Green Cloth
1. Frequently with capital initials. The counting house, formerly a department of the British royal household consisting of the Lord Steward and his subordinates, with control of various matters of law and finance within the household. In later use chiefly in Board of Green Cloth. Now historical.Although the Board of Green Cloth existed until 2004, its jurisdiction was in recent times limited to liquor, betting, and gaming licences for premises within the areas governed by the Royal palaces. The Board was abolished in the reform of local government brought about by the Licensing Act 2003 (section 195).
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > [noun] > cloth
green cloth1449
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society > authority > office > holder of office > official of royal or great household > [noun] > chief > in royal household > department of
green cloth1449
Master of the Great Wardrobe1704
1449–50 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1449 §53. m. 16 The graunte..made by us by oure lettres patentz to John Parke, oon of oure clerkes of oure grenecloth.
1536 in Gentleman's Mag. (1813) May 427 Thomas Hatterlyf and Edwarde Weldon, clerks of the greenclothe.
1539 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 228 Calling unto them the Cofferer, Clerke of the Greencloth, and one of the Clerkes-Comptrollers.
a1626 F. Bacon Speech Purveyors in Resuscitatio (1657) 7 As to the Court, of the Green-Cloth, ordained, for the Provision, of your Majesties most Honourable Houshold, we hold it Ancient, we hold it Reverent.
1658 F. Osborne Mem. Reigns Elizabeth & James (1673) 428 The Green cloth (a Court only intending Provision and Carriages).
1695 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) III. 489 Mr. comptroller has complained to the green cloth against Mr. Story for keeping musick and revelling in his house on the fast day.
1697 in M. Prior State-poems 61 To cheat the King he has left off being brave, From Captain turn'd a formal Green-cloth Knave.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Green-Cloth, or Counting-House of the King's Houshold, is so called, because the Table stands always covered with a Green-Cloth.
1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 11 Aug. (1948) I. 330 I dined to-day at the green-cloth.
1774 Folly 3 Attorney-general sounds but somewhat queer, And board of green-cloth strangely grates the ear.
1849 T. Lewin Minotaur! i. 17 Hoist up—an order from the green cloth board,—To rake old Albion out for costermongers.
1895 Whitaker's Almanack 92 Lord Steward's Department. Board of Green Cloth, Buckingham Palace.
1897 Daily News 2 Feb. 7/4 The Board of Green Cloth..pointed out that complimentary orders did not entitle the trade to the use of the Royal arms.
1917 Eng. Hist. Rev. 32 351 A clerk of the household who had received his financial training as one of the clerks of the compting house or board of green cloth.
1923 Times 8 Jan. 13/2 Mr. George Augustus Courroux, C.V.O., the last to hold the office of secretary to the Board of Green Cloth, the department of the Master of the Household at Buckingham Palace.
1998 Daily Tel. 26 Dec. 27/4 His wife was the daughter of Edward Smyth, of Mitcham, Surrey, Clerk of the Green Cloth to Queen Elizabeth.
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board of green cloth
2. colloquial. The cloth covering the surface of a billiard or gaming table; (also punningly board of green cloth) the table itself. Cf. green baize n.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > table
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billiard-table1641
pool table1860
green cloth1891
1674 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester i. 23 The form of a Billiard-Table is oblong... The superficies of the Table must be covered with green-cloth.
1780 Town & Country Mag. Oct. 507/2 He was a tolerable good billiard player, and devoted most of his leisure hours to the board of green cloth.
1800 J. H. Castera Life Catharine II (ed. 4) III. xv. 160 It is the custom in Russia, when playing at whist, instead of markers, to use pieces of chalk in a little case of silver or ivory, with which the amount of the game is scored in figures on the green cloth.
1824 S. Green Sc. Novel Reading II. xi. 236 I must look to the board of green cloth to save me from poverty... The board of green cloth that I mean, is that whereon we play at cards and dice.
1881 J. Grant Cameronians I. ii. 28 Trying..his fortune at ‘the board of green cloth’.
1891 Rev. of Reviews July 24 Gambling on the green cloth.
1912 ‘G. A. Birmingham’ Red Hand of Ulster xix. 184 They [sc. the cards] jumped out of the player's hand and obstinately declared that the green cloth was a real battlefield.
1922 Times 7 Feb. 13/4 The little dry scraping sound of the inexorable rakes on the green cloth, the rattle of counters being taken up.
2006 J. Wenzel Everything Texas Hold'em Bk. xiv. 221 Develop a feel for the game and the players you stare down around the green cloth.
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