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baize(dictionary)

Sokolow, Anna (sh) and baize (iou)


Sokolow, Anna (sh)




born Feb. 9, 1910, Hartford, Conn., U.S.
died March 29, 2000, New York, N.Y.

U.S. modern dancer, choreographer, and teacher.

She studied with Martha Graham and danced with Graham's company (1930-38). In the early 1930s she also formed her own Dance group, the Dance Unit. From 1939 to 1949 she spent part of each year as a teacher and choreographer in Mexico City, where she formed Mexico's first modern-Dance group. Throughout her career and into the 1990s, she continued to form various companies and for them she often choreographed works on subjects of social concern.


baize (iou)



baize noun & verb. L16.
[French baies fem. pl., use as noun of bai reddish brown, BAY noun7 (so named presumably from its original colour).]
A. noun.
A coarse usu. green woollen stuff with a long nap, used for coverings and linings. L16.
A curtain or covering of baize. E19.
Phrases: green baize: see GREEN adjective.
b. verb trans. Cover or line with baize. M19.
? The pl. form baies was early taken as a sing.; the form baize was not established before 19.