Billiards Definition
(games, UK) A two-player cue sport played with two cue balls and one red ball, on a snooker sized table.
Origin of Billiards
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From French billard, originally referring to the wooden cue stick, diminutive of Old French bille (“log, tree trunk”), from Vulgar Latin *bilia, probably of Gaulish origin (compare Old Irish bile (“tree”)).
From Wiktionary
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French billard from bille log billet2
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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