Board of Green Cloth

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A board of officials responsible for auditing the accounts of the royal household, making royal travel arrangements, and sitting as a court upon offences committed within the verge of the palace. More recently its jurisdiction was limited to alcohol sales and gambling licences, and it was abolished in 2004.

Origin

• Named from the tablecloth of green baize that covered the table at which its members sat.