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The name of billiards would come from its inventor, an English tailor living in London in 1560, fore-mentioned Bill which had as a practice to play with the three balls which composed its ensign by pushing them on its counter using its meter of dressmaker: from where the name given to the play: Bill' S yard (literally: “the meter of Bill”). This anecdote, reported by a journalist in the Intermediary of the Researchers and Curieux under the inventive title about History about billiards, was quickly dismounted, because the play had existed already for three centuries and the tables had appeared in 1469.
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