billard

• billet
• billit

billard (plural billards)

1. (obsolete) A coalfish, especially a young one.

• “billard”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Borrowed from French billard (“billiards, pool table”).

billard c (definite singular billarden) (uncountable)

1. billiards (a ball game played on a billiard table)

billard n (definite singular billardet, indefinite plural billarder, definite plural billarderne)

1. a billiard table (another name for billardbord)

Derived from bille (“log, tree trunk”) +‎ -ard, the term billard ("little log") originally referring to the cue stick with which the game is played.

• IPA^(key): /bi.jaʁ/

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billard m (plural billards)

1. billiards
2. pool table
3. (slang) operating table

• sur le billard
• passer sur le billard

• “billard”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.