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Bengalee

American  
[ben-gaw-lee, -gah-, beng-] / bɛnˈgɔ li, -ˈgɑ-, bɛŋ- /
Or Bengali

noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of Bangladesh.


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There is, too, a costly attention to the wishes of a guest, which will remind you of India, though I must own the Irish Brahmin has not the grand, high-bred air of the Bengalee.

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The barbarous ancestors of our own frank and manly race are no less obnoxious to the charge than those of the cat-like Bengalee; for in this childhood of society brave men and cowards are treacherous alike.

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The superintendent was a most gentlemanly person, and so was his Bengalee servant.

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Dictionary of the Bengalee Language, vol. ii. part iii. p.

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The Bengalee sheep are described as 'small, lank, and thin, and the colour of three-fourths of each flock is black or dark gray.

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