red-baize

Updated: June 15, 2025

Ah, how different was the lamentable Hole in the which I now found myself cheek by jowl with Felons and Caravats, to the great red-baize Pew in which I had sat so often a Little Gentleman! But his Lordship to the left, who had an old white face like a sheep, and his wig all awry, was of a more placable demeanour, and looked at me, poor luckless Outcast, with some interest.

George Augustus Sala - The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 : Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave : among the moors...