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| 1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) | ||
Bengal
n 1: a region whose eastern part is now Bangladesh and whose
western part is included in India
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| 2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 | ||
Bengal \Ben*gal"\, prop. n.
1. A province in India, giving its name to various stuffs,
animals, etc.
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2. A thin stuff, made of silk and hair, originally brought
from Bengal.
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3. Striped gingham, originally brought from Bengal; Bengal
stripes.
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Bengal light, a firework containing niter, sulphur, and
antimony, and producing a sustained and vivid colored
light, used in making signals and in pyrotechnics; --
called also blue light.
Bengal stripes, a kind of cotton cloth woven with colored
stripes. See Bengal, 3.
Bengal tiger. (Zool.). See Tiger.
[1913 Webster] Bengalee
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