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bengaline

/ˈbɛŋɡəliːn/

bengaline noun: a fabric made from silk and worsted; poplin.

Noun

bengaline (countable and uncountable, plural bengalines)

  1. A fabric made from silk and worsted; poplin.
    • Ruperta tonight was in a narrow black bengaline costume with a Medici collar and cuffs of bastard chinchilla.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 415

Forms of bengaline

pluralbengalines

Origin of bengaline

From French bengaline, from its resemblance to a kind of fabric imported from Bengal.

Questions about bengaline

What does bengaline mean?
Bengaline means a fabric made from silk and worsted; poplin.
What part of speech is bengaline?
Bengaline is a noun.
How do you pronounce bengaline?
Bengaline is pronounced /ˈbɛŋɡəliːn/.
What is the plural of bengaline?
The plural of bengaline is bengalines.

Words near bengaline in the dictionary

  1. Bengali People's Republic
  2. Bengali script
  3. Bengalian
  4. Bengalians
  5. Bengalic
  6. bengaline
  7. bengalines
  8. Bengaliness
  9. Bengalis
  10. Bengalisation
  11. Bengalism

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