英语词汇“purdah”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

pur·dah

(pûrdə)

a. A curtain or screen, used mainly in India to keep women separate from men or strangers.

b. The Hindu or Muslim system of sex segregation, practiced especially by keeping women in seclusion.

2. Social seclusion: "Never have artists been more separate: their inordinate fame, wealth, drug use have driven them into luxurious purdah" (D. Keith Mano).

[Urdu pardah, veil, from Persian, from Middle Persian pardak, from Old Persian *paridaka-, from pari-dā-, to place over : pari, around, over; see per¹ in the Appendix of Indo-European roots + dā-, to place; see dhē- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]

单词	purdah
释义	pur·dah (pûrdə) n. 1. a. A curtain or screen, used mainly in India to keep women separate from men or strangers. b. The Hindu or Muslim system of sex segregation, practiced especially by keeping women in seclusion. 2. Social seclusion: "Never have artists been more separate: their inordinate fame, wealth, drug use have driven them into luxurious purdah" (D. Keith Mano). [Urdu pardah, veil, from Persian, from Middle Persian pardak, from Old Persian paridaka-, from pari-dā-, to place over : pari, around, over; see per¹ in the Appendix of Indo-European roots + dā-*, to place; see dhē- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]
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