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{{Short description|Bounded table on which cue sports are played}} {{More citations needed |date=September 2022}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} [[File:A carom table in Café Zéphyr, Paris, France, 14 January 2007.jpg|thumb|Larger tables may require multiple lamps to properly light the playing surface.]] [[File:"Billiard Table Manufactory, J. M. Brunswick & Bro., Proprietors, Cincinnati, Ohio" 1865 ad in Polk's Nashville (Davidson county, Tenn.) City Directory ... 1865 (IA polksnashvilleda00nash) (page 10 crop).jpg|thumb|Billiard Table Manufactory, J. M. Brunswick & Bro., Proprietors, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1865 ad]] A '''billiard table''' or '''billiards table''' is a bounded [[table (furniture)|table]] on which [[cue sports]] are played. In the modern era, all billiards tables (whether for [[carom billiards]], [[Pool (cue sports)|pool]], [[Russian pyramid|pyramid]] or [[snooker]]) provide a flat surface usually made of quarried [[slate]], that is covered with cloth (usually of a tightly woven [[worsted wool]] called [[baize]]), and surrounded by [[vulcanized rubber]] cushions, with the whole thing elevated above the floor.<ref name="Shamos 1999">{{Shamos 1999}}</ref>{{rp|115, 238}} More specific terms are used for specific sports, such as '''snooker table''' and '''pool table''', and different-sized [[billiard ball]]s are used on these table types. An obsolete term is '''billiard board''', used in the 16th and 17th centuries.<ref name="Shamos 1999" />{{rp|27}}<ref name="Everton 1986">{{Cite book |title=The History of Snooker and Billiards |last=Everton |first=Clive |author-link=Clive Everton |location=Haywards Heath, England |publisher=[[Transworld (company)|Partridge Press]] |pages=8–11 |date=1986 |edition=rev. ver. of ''The Story of Billiards and Snooker'' [1979] |isbn=1-85225-013-5}}</ref>
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