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bengalines

bengalines is the plural of bengaline.

Meaning of bengaline

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

Questions about bengalines

What is bengalines the plural of?
Bengalines is the plural of bengaline.

Words near bengalines in the dictionary

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

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