As she passed through the dining-room she heard, behind the purdah that cloaked the drawing-room door, her husband's voice, […]
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Purdah
//ˈpɜːdə//
Synonyms for "purdah" (6 found)
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Translations
21 translations across 17 languages.
Bengali
1 entries- পর্দা noun (situation or system of secluding women from the gaze of people in some Muslim and Hindu traditions)
Esperanto
1 entries- purdaho noun (situation or system of secluding women from the gaze of people in some Muslim and Hindu traditions)
Georgian
1 entries- ფარდა noun (situation or system of secluding women from the gaze of people in some Muslim and Hindu traditions)
German
1 entries- Parda noun (situation or system of secluding women from the gaze of people in some Muslim and Hindu traditions)
Hindi
2 entries- पर्दा noun (curtain, especially one used in some Hindu or Muslim traditions to conceal women from the gaze of people)
- पर्दा प्रथा noun (situation or system of secluding women from the gaze of people in some Muslim and Hindu traditions)
Japanese
1 entries- パルダ noun (situation or system of secluding women from the gaze of people in some Muslim and Hindu traditions)
Korean
1 entries- 퍼다 noun (situation or system of secluding women from the gaze of people in some Muslim and Hindu traditions)
Malay
1 entries- purdah noun (long veil or other attire covering most of the body, worn by women in some Muslim societies)
Marathi
1 entries- पडदा noun (long veil or other attire covering most of the body, worn by women in some Muslim societies)
Persian
2 entries- پرده noun (curtain, especially one used in some Hindu or Muslim traditions to conceal women from the gaze of people)
- پردهکردن noun (situation or system of secluding women from the gaze of people in some Muslim and Hindu traditions)
Russian
2 entries- парда noun (situation or system of secluding women from the gaze of people in some Muslim and Hindu traditions)
- пурда noun (situation or system of secluding women from the gaze of people in some Muslim and Hindu traditions)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- пурда noun (situation or system of secluding women from the gaze of people in some Muslim and Hindu traditions)
Sinhalese
2 entries- පර්ඩර් noun (situation or system of secluding women from the gaze of people in some Muslim and Hindu traditions)
- පර්ඩර් noun (period between the announcement of an election or referendum and its conclusion)
Tamil
1 entries- பர்தா noun (situation or system of secluding women from the gaze of people in some Muslim and Hindu traditions)
Turkish
1 entries- perde noun (situation or system of secluding women from the gaze of people in some Muslim and Hindu traditions)
Ukrainian
1 entries- пурда noun (situation or system of secluding women from the gaze of people in some Muslim and Hindu traditions)
Urdu
1 entries- پردہ noun (curtain, especially one used in some Hindu or Muslim traditions to conceal women from the gaze of people)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
"Come and see my wife a little then," said Hamidullah, and they spent twenty minutes behind the purdah.
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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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The diagnosis of Kit's malady was soon verified, and Fleur went into purdah.
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