Thesaurus: bengal

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1. n. A province in India, giving its name to various stuffs, animals, etc.
2. n. A thin stuff, made of silk and hair, originally brought from Bengal.
3. n. Striped gingham, originally brought from Bengal; Bengal stripes.
4. 1. A province in India, giving its name to various stuffs, animals, etc. 2. A thin stuff, made of silk and hair, originally brought from Bengal. 3. Striped gingham, originally brought from Bengal; Bengal stripes. 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. (Zoöl.). See Tiger.
5. The language spoken in Bengal.
6. j:100 n. a region whose eastern part is now Bangladesh and whose western part is included in India