弁柄

Etymology
Borrowing of,  or of , as both the cloth and the red iron oxide were imported from  in the.

. The kanji spelling is an example of phonetic.

First cited to a text from 1693.

Noun

 * 1)  red iron oxide
 * 2)  a kind of cloth first imported from Bengal during the, made using silk for the warp threads and cotton for the weft