bengal stripes
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.42 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Take the finer class of ducks such as Bengal stripes, and we get them from the old country , chiefly from England and France ."
- "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)."