bengaline
Meaning of bengaline
noun
a strong ribbed fabric made of a mixture of silk and either cotton or wool.
late 19th century: from French, so named because of a similarity with archaic Bengals denoting fabrics, usually silks, imported from Bengal.
Information about bengaline
- It is a name.
- The plural form of bengaline is: bengalines.
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Hyphenation of bengaline
ben-ga-line
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- bengaline is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Words that rhyme with bengaline
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