bengaline

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bengaline

[′beŋ·gə‚lēn]

(textiles)

A warp-faced fabric with distinct, fully covered crosswise ribs that are formed by coarse filling.

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Anna, along with her parents and a number of family friends, attended the opening of the Kunstlerhaus exhibition in late October; she was observed wearing a tailored suit of steel-grey bengaline, the long sleeves that grazed her palms even further extended by a ruffed trim of Irish lace.

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WITH a plunging neckline and sleek shape, this black bengaline mesh dress, pounds 38 at Miss Selfridge, oozes sex appeal.

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Her best seller is the Billion Dollar Baby dress by Stop Staring in figure-hugging bengaline which costs pounds 145.

FASHION GONE MAD; How the TV series boosted a vintage clothing firm already enjoying retro revival: Clare Quartermaine began wearing vintage clothes when she was 15. Today she caters for women like herself who want to turn the clock back to a time when fashion was chic and shapely. Hilarie Stelfox reports

Tables were draped with apple-green bengaline cloths and overlaid with garden toile.

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Flocked bengaline dress, pounds 32, Miss Selfridge Chandelier earrings, pounds 12.

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The attendants each wore hunter-green strapless gowns of bengaline taffeta, and carried hand-gathered amaryllis bouquets accented with beargrass.