Meanings
- uncountableA kind of cotton cloth woven with white and coloured stripes.
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 23572 more examples
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 156Stripes have held long-term popularity in interior design, and the term 'Regency' has been used to refer to those stripes which, according to Hampshire and Stephenson, were originally called 'tiger' or 'Bengal' stripes and were associated with the British Raj in South Asia during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (2006b: 35).
2015, Michael Hann, Stripes, Grids and Checks, page xxvii
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