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  • adjective Of or relating to Bengal.
  • noun A native or inhabitant of Bengal.

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Examples

  • "They were probably first called Bengalese houses, and the present name was corrupted out of the adjective."

    Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East Oliver Optic 1859

  • The team where able to replicate a number of bird-songs, such as Bengalese finches and vireos, and were able to closely model the song of zebra finches.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • For Burtynsky, there is nothing more beautiful or intriguing than a gaping blackened pit dug out of the earth by a mining company or the husk of a rusted ship being dismantled by a team of Bengalese children like insects on a carcass, or a Manhattan-sized factory filled with uniformed worker drones churning out 200 light fixtures a day.

    GreenCine Daily: PIFF Dispatch. 9. 2007

  • The Bengalese to the most extend are still resented and the Biharis looked upon as unwanted and almost parasitical.

    The Question(s) of Gorkhaland by Barun Roy 2008

  • It is their belief that as a constituent fabric of the Indian Union like the Bengalese, Tamils, Punjabis, they can as Gorkhas from Gorkhaland serve Indian Union to their fullest capacity.

    The Question(s) of Gorkhaland by Barun Roy 2008

  • As he wanders about in his Bengalese clothes, Yunus is sometimes referred to as a modern Gandhi.

    The Nobel Peace Prize 2006 - Presentation Speech 2006

  • In a small Bengalese village the chickens were disappearing and so the farmer, Ajit Ghosh, stayed up at night to see what was the cause and the tale he recalled is truly horrifying!

    Archive 2007-03-01 2007

  • Cloaxity, this Bengalese Beacon of Biloxity, this Annamite Aper of Atroxity, really at, it will be precise to quarify, for he seems in a badbad case?

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • We are privileged tonight to sample and experiment with some very rare Bengalese plants that just came ashore.

    The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006

  • We are privileged tonight to sample and experiment with some very rare Bengalese plants that just came ashore.

    The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006

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