Billiards
A corrupt form of the French billard. “Autrefois, le bâton
avec lequel on poussait les billes”; then “la table verte sur
laquelle on joue”; and, lastly, the “game itself.”
Similar plural forms are the games called bowls, cards, dominoes,
draughts, marbles, quoits, skittles, tops, etc.
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