billiard
/ˈbɪlɪəd/ nom B2En français : carambole
- A shot in billiards or snooker in which the cue ball strikes two other balls; a carom.
- Pertaining to the game of billiards. · a billiard table; a billiard ball
- A dynamical system in which a particle alternates between motion in a straight line and specular reflections from a boundary.
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Dans la bibliothèque
If a home is happy it cannot fit too close—let the dresser collapse and become a billiard table; let the mantel turn to a rowing machine, the escritoire to a spare bedchamber, the washstand to an upright piano; let the four walls come together, if they will, so you and your Delia are between.
Within doors there was Lady Catherine, books, and a billiard table, but gentlemen cannot be always within doors; and in the nearness of the Parsonage, or the pleasantness of the walk to it, or of the people who lived in it, the two cousins found a temptation from this period of walking thither almost every day.
The book, however, had been left in the billiard-room, so I pulled on my dressing-gown and started off to get it.
“‘In order to reach the billiard-room I had to descend a flight of stairs and then to cross the head of a passage which led to the library and the gun-room.
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