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purdah

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈpɜːdə/Part of speech nounSorted adhpruStarts with PEnds with H0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a screen used in India to separate women from men or strangers

Word origin

Borrowed from Hindustani پردہ / पर्दा (pardā), and its etymon Classical Persian پرده (pardah, “curtain; screen; (archaic) veil”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”). Doublet of patka.

Used in a sentence

  • As she passed through the dining-room she heard, behind the purdah that cloaked the drawing-room door, her husband's voice, […]
  • "Come and see my wife a little then," said Hamidullah, and they spent twenty minutes behind the purdah.
  • He was won by her love for him, by a loyalty that implied something more than submission, and by her efforts to educate herself against that lifting of the purdah that would come in the next generation if not in theirs.

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