purdah in English
noun
1
the practice among women in certain Muslim and Hindu societies of living in a separate room or behind a curtain, or of dressing in all-enveloping clothes, in order to stay out of the sight of men or strangers.
he required them to observe purdah
noun
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2. When they become possessed by their spirits, these demure, purdah-confined ladies undergo a remarkable change.
3. 11 A cavalier attitude to purdah was one thing; for a woman to be seen exposing her nether regions quite another.
4. In speaking about all this , Badruddin pointed out that the whole rigid and elaborate purdah system was founded on the few generalities in the Quran , where women were told not to flaunt their beauty before man .