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Definition of Bengaline
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bengaline
Literary usage of Bengaline
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Textiles for Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools: Also Adapted by William Henry Dooley (1914)
"bengaline. An imitation of an old silk fabric made for many centuries in Bengal,
India, whence the name. The weave is similar to that of ordinary rep or ..."
2. Textiles and Clothing by Ellen Beers McGowan, Charlotte Augusta Waite, A. (1919)
"bengaline, ottoman, grosgrain, poplin, Terry velvet, faille frangaise and ...
bengaline, for example, has filling cords of wool or cotton covered with the ..."
3. A Cotton Fabrics Glossary by Frank P. Bennett, & Co (1914)
"Certain expensive bengaline fabrics are also used largely for trimming purposes,
both in solid colors and in a printed and ..."
4. The New York Mirror Annual and Directory of the Theatrical Profession for by Harrison Grey Fiske (1888)
"... hy bengaline, and the piotter has really heen entangled in a nocturnal ...
bengaline resigns her ..."
5. Recollections of Fred Leslie by William Thomas Vincent (1894)
"Djemma humours the fleeting fancy of the Prince, and bengaline in the disguise
of a Bayadere tries to win her lover back. Ayala hears the legend of the ..."
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