Bengal

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Bengal
       n : a region whose eastern part is now Bangladesh and whose
           western part is included in India