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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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A common Bengalee cook will do nothing but the simple business of cooking: But he seemed to forget his cast, and almost his own wants, in his efforts to serve us.

From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

A Bengalee Muhammadan, a graduate of Cambridge, has published a book entitled "The Life of Muhammad," which is saturated with rationalistic views.

From Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 by James Kennedy

He is dimly remembered as the author of a grammar of the Bengalee language and of a work on Gentoo laws translated from the Persian.

From A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III by Justin McCarthy

It takes place in the Bengalee month of Pous or January, following immediately in the wake of the English Christmas and New year's day.

From The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal by Shib Chunder Bose

Had I discoursed to her in Bengalee she would have comprehended me no more imperfectly.

From The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) by Marion Harland

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