Bengal

prop. n.	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 (Zool.) See Tiger.

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Bengal - a region whose eastern part is now Bangladesh and whose western part is included in India

geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical region

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