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‖ chuddar Anglo-Ind.|ˈtʃʌdə(r)|
Also chadah, chadar, chaddar, chader, chadur, chuddah, -er, -ur, chudah.
[Hindī chadar a square piece of cloth.]
A large sheet commonly worn as a shawl or mantle by women in northern India. Also applied to the cloths spread over Mahommedan tombs. Hence chuddah shawl.
1614Peyton in Purchas Pilgr. I. 530 (Y.) Pentados, chints, and chadars. 1622R. Cocks Diary (1883) I. 109 Chaders, cambias, and buxshaws. 1873Life Sir H. Laurence I. 199 Over all the chuddur or sheet of white muslin. 1876A. Arnold in Contemp. Rev. June 49 She is covered from head to foot in the loose chudder of indigo, or black-dyed cotton. 1876Cornhill Mag. XXXIV. 335 Get a chaddar (cloak) to wrap round you. 1879E. Arnold Light of Asia iv. (1886) 89 The Chuddar fallen to her waist. 1881E. Coxon Basil-Pl. II. 21 Gathering her soft chuddah shawl round her. 1900Daily News 16 Feb. 6/7 A Hindu woman actually needs but two garments, a skirt and a chadar, or veil. 1934F. Stark Valleys of Assassins v. 275 A pale blue chadur, or veil. 1953A. Smith Blind White Fish vii. 122 They nodded and pulled their chadahs, the cloaks which cover their heads and reach to the ground, tighter over their faces and said no word. |