单词 | purdah woman |
释义 | > as lemmaspurdah woman purdah woman n. ΚΠ 1886 Marion (Ohio) Daily Star 12 June Some of them are ‘purdah women’ who would never lay aside their veils and step outside the curtain except under protection of the sacred simplicity of pilgrimage. 1946 B. R. Ambedkar Pakistan or Partition of India x. 221 Purdah women in particular become helpless, timid, and unfit for any fight in life. 2003 A. Burton Dwelling in Arch. iii. 77 If she was trying to rescue..purdah women from accusations of uncontrolled sexual passion, there is little evidence of it. < as lemmas |
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