单词	purdah
释义	purdahpur‧dah /ˈpɜːdə, -dɑː $ ˈpɜːr-/ noun [uncountable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINpurdah Origin: 1800-1900 Hindi parda ‘screen, veil’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A cavalier attitude to purdah was one thing; for a woman to be seen exposing her nether regions quite another. Here on the dang strict purdah is impractical and everyone understands this, brothers-in-law included. It represents a small assault on the bastion of purdah. None the less, after about eighteen months in technological purdah, he emerged, having resolved most of the equipment problems. She has spent her married life locked in purdah in a castle. We think we have to fight purdah and fundamentalist tenets. word sets WORD SETS► Islam Allah, ayatollah, nounBlack Muslim, nouncrescent, noundervish, nounemir, nounfatwa, nounhaj, nounhajji, nounhakim, nounhalal, adjectiveHegira, Hegira calendar, Hejira, imam, nounIslam, nounjihad, nounKoran, the, adjectiveMohammed, nounMoslem, mosque, nounmuezzin, nounmufti, nounmujaheddin, nounmullah, nounMuslim, nounprayer mat, nounpurdah, nounQuran, the, Ramadan, nounSaracen, nounsharia, nounsheikh, nounShia, nounShiite, nounSunni, nounyashmak, noun 1the custom in some Muslim and Hindu societies in which women stay indoors or cover their faces so that men cannot see themin purdah The bride remains in purdah until the wedding.2a period of being alone, especially to keep something secret:  18 months of self-imposed purdah
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