Bengal stripes

Noun

Bengal stripes (uncountable)

1. A kind of cotton cloth woven with white and coloured stripes.
   • Plain piece goods, say mulls, jaconets, maddapollams, and long cloth, sell more currently, and at a trifling advance. Printed goods, —as Bengal stripes, single stripes, single coloured plats, pine and neutral chintz, are selling also currently.1831 November, “Prices of European Goods in the East”, in The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China, and Australasia, volume 6, page 156
   • Take the finer class of ducks such as Bengal stripes, and we get them from the old country , chiefly from England and France .1906, Official Reports of the Debates of the House of Commons, page 2357