Bengal
Ben·gal
Bengal
prop. n.
- A province in India, giving its name to various stuffs, animals, etc.
- A thin stuff, made of silk and hair, originally brought from Bengal.
- Striped gingham, originally brought from Bengal; Bengal stripes.
Phrases & Compounds
- 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
- See Tiger.