'Billiards' is a word borrowed from French 'billard'. The word entered the English language some time around 1580.
billiards [noun plural but singular in construction] [1580]
- any of several games played on an oblong table by driving small balls against one another or into pockets with a cue
- a game in which one scores by causing a cue ball to hit in succession two object balls
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Etymology: Middle French 'billard' billiard cue, billiards, from 'bille' wooden stick, log
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