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Synonyms for purdah

Grammar : Noun
Spell : pur-duh
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɜr də

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Définition of purdah

Origin :
  • 1800, from Urdu and Persian pardah "veil, curtain," from Old Persian pari "around, over" (from PIE *per- (1); see per-) + da- "to place", from PIE *dhe- "to set, put" (see factitious).
  • As in hood : noun covering worn over the head
  • As in house arrest : noun confinement in one's home
  • As in harem : noun group of lady attendants
Example sentences :
  • At the end of the room was a purdah or curtain, and behind it people were talking.
  • Extract from : « Wanderings in India » by John Lang
  • He had not been backward, however, in awakening his grandfather to purdah manÅ“uvres.
  • Extract from : « Far to Seek » by Maud Diver
  • Anybody would think, to listen to some people, that the purdah flourished in Chelsea.
  • Extract from : « The Roll-Call » by Arnold Bennett
  • The purdah rustled, and the speech was cut short by the entry of a little, thin woman with big rings round her eyes.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition » by Rudyard Kipling
  • A male doctor attending a zenana lady would put his hand between the purdah to feel her pulse.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 » by Various
  • With these words she left Ahmed as he lifted the purdah, having followed him as far as her woman's feet were permitted to go.
  • Extract from : « In Kali's Country » by Emily Churchill Thompson Sheets
  • The friendliest were baffled by her incomprehensible lack of social instinct, the fruit of India's purdah system.
  • Extract from : « Far to Seek » by Maud Diver
  • "You see the child came regularly to my purdah parties," she explained to Roy, who was impatient no longer, only absorbed.
  • Extract from : « Far to Seek » by Maud Diver
  • Half-a-dozen of them screamed that two of us were white men who had trespassed within the purdah, and that we should be killed.
  • Extract from : « Caves of Terror » by Talbot Mundy
  • Purdah, pur′d, n. a curtain screening a chamber of state or the women's apartments: the seclusion itself.
  • Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) » by Various
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