(1) Public health authorities were buffled as the rapid spread of the disease throughout the entire state of West Bengal could not be contained in spite of instituting all probable control measures on war footing.
Duffle
Definition:
(n.) See Duffel.
Example Sentences:
(1) I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
(2) If the typical Aldermaston marcher could be characterised as a middle-class student in a duffle coat, his equivalent at the Holy Loch was a Clydesider of the skilled working class, either an apprentice or an older man (occasionally a woman) who belonged to a craft union and knew his anarchists from his syndicalists.
(3) "And up I come, looking about eight years old in baggy clothes and duffle coat, all ginger hair and glasses.
(4) Personally, the only item on her list which really made me wince is the recommendation not to be gay, which goes through so many ironic spin cycles it could wring out a hipster's duffle coat.
(5) The character, created in 1958 by Michael Bond, was named after the west London railway station where he was discovered wearing his blue duffle coat, red sowester and a sign instructing the finder to "please look after this bear".
(6) or, "Oh, God, you can't trust a man in a duffle coat, forget it", and so on.
(7) Either way, it's a jarring moment of decency in a carnival of exhibitionism; a disconcerting burst of modesty at a brazen flesh disco, like Liberace turning up at Studio 54 in duffle coat and waders.