Bengal stripes

English Noun - A kind of cotton cloth woven with white and coloured stripes. en 1831 November The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China, and Australasia Prices of European Goods in the East 6 156 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. en 1906 Official Reports of the Debates of the House of Commons 2357 Take the finer class of ducks such as Bengal stripes, and we get them from the old country , chiefly from England and France . en 2015 Michael Hann Stripes, Grids and Checks xxvii Stripes 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). en Textiles