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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 Ben·gal light /ˈbɛnˌgɔl, ˌbɛŋ, ˌgɑl, gəl-/

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ben·gal prop. n.
 1. A province in India, giving its name to various stuffs, animals, etc.
 2. A thin stuff, made of silk and hair, originally brought from Bengal.
 3. Striped gingham, originally brought from Bengal; Bengal stripes.
 Bengal light, a firework containing niter, sulphur, and antimony, and producing a sustained and vivid colored light, used in making signals and in pyrotechnics; -- called also blue light.
 Bengal stripes, a kind of cotton cloth woven with colored stripes. See Bengal, 3.
 Bengal tiger. Zool.. See Tiger.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 Bengal light
      n : a steady bright blue light; formerly used as a signal but
          now a firework