purdahn.

Brit.

/ˈpəːdə/,

/ˈpəːdɑː/, U.S.

/ˈpərdə/

Forms: 1600s 1900s– parda, 1700s purdeh, 1700s– purdah, 1700s– purder, 1800s purdoe, 1800s purdow, 1800s– pardah, 1900s– purda, 2000s– purdha.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Urdu. Partly a borrowing from Persian. Etymons: Urdu parda; Persian parda.

Etymology: < Urdu parda curtain, veil, and its etymon Persian parda.

a. Originally and chiefly South Asian. A curtain; esp. one used in some Muslim and Hindu communities to screen women from public observation and particularly from the sight of men or strangers. Now frequently in extended use.In quot. 1952 a sheet or veil used as part of a Hindu wedding ceremony.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > [noun]

shadowc1200

blindfolding?c1225

coverturec1374

hiding1382

veilc1384

palliation?c1425

covert1574

panoply1576

hoodwink1577

mask1597

cover1600

screena1616

pretexture1618

purdah1621

subterfuge1621

tecture1624

coverlet1628

domino1836

face shield1842

concealment1847

protective colouring1873

camouflage1885

protective coloration1892

smokescreen1926

cover-up1927

scrim1942

marzipan1945

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [noun] > seclusion of Indian women > curtain

purdah1621

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > covers or hangings > [noun] > hangings > curtain

curtainc1320

riddelc1380

saya1382

serge1382

veilinga1398

traverse1400

veil1567

purdah1621

scene1638

drapes1908

1621 R. Hughes Let. 31 Mar. in Eng. Factories in India, 1618–21 (1906) 246 I advized you I had cleared with Muckrob Con for those thinges delivered into his circare, to saye, for the parda or peece of tapestrye, 300 rupes.

1792 Minutes Trial Warren Hastings IV. 1699 Curtains made of Cotton stuffed with Wool, these particular Purdahs were.

1809 Visct. Valentia Voy. I. 100 He led me to a small couch close to the purdah, and seated me on his right hand..between his mother and himself, though she was invisible.

1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen i. 9 They passed through no door, but only by the yielding folds of a purder.

a1858 D. Wilson in Life (1860) II. xv. 126 Purdahs or curtains of all colours hung from the crenated arches.

1878 G. Graham Life in Mofussil I. 113 Native ladies look upon the confinement behind the purdah as a badge of rank, and also as a sign of chastity.

1927 New Republic 21 Sept. 127/2 Miss Mayo speaks as though the seclusion of women behind the purdah were universal throughout India.

1952 S. Selvon Brighter Sun i. 9 He didn't feel any sexual excitement... Even when he had looked at her face under the purdah—the white sheet thrown over them.

1992 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 20 Dec. e9 India has certainly had this tradition of begums..ruling from behind the purdah.

†b. A kind of striped cotton cloth. rare. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > cotton > [noun] > coloured, patterned, or printed > specific

pintadoa1575

Salempore1598

chintz1614

nankeenc1700

caffa1701

jamwar1721

nankinett1794

purdah1813

zephyr1819

nankeening1830

calico1841

permanent1854

galatea1874

Madras gingham1880

Turkey red1880

Madras1897

shadow cretonne1932

shadow stripe1932

1813 J. Forbes Oriental Mem. II. xxvii. 518 Purdoe or chintz covering [formed] my curtains.

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Purdah, an Indian cotton cloth, with white and blue stripes, used for curtains, etc.

c. All-enveloping clothing, esp. in the form of a long veil, worn in public by women in some Muslim communities in order to conceal the face and body.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for head and body > [noun]

huke1630

haik1713

feridgi1717

burka1836

anorak1874

paranja1928

buibui1929

purdah1954

jilbab1972

1954 Zanesville (Ohio) Signal 13 Aug. 5/2 (headline) Woman could whip fashion problem by wearing purdah.

1989 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) (Nexis) 26 Sept. a10 Women ought to wear ‘purdah’, the ghost-like female drapery of traditional Moslem culture.

1995 V. Chandra Red Earth & Pouring Rain (1996) 458 Gul Jahaan raised the purdah from her face, the better to speak to him.

a. Among women in some Muslim and Hindu communities: the practice of remaining secluded from certain sections of society, particularly men or strangers, esp. by means of a curtain or partition; (also) the practice of veiling the face or concealing the face and body by means of all-enveloping clothing when in public; the state or condition of following these practices.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > privacy > [noun]

privity?c1225

recess?1532

retiredness1601

privacy1602

retirement1603

purdah1865

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [noun] > seclusion of Indian women

purdah1865

1865 Daily Tel. 25 Nov. 8/6 As an Occidental, she will not like that tame bird's life inside the lattice cage and the pardah which Oriental wives must bear.

1893 W. S. Burrell & E. E. Cuthell Indian Mem. 23 The veil of the purdah hangs less heavily over Mahommedan than over Bengali women.

1905 19th Cent. Mar. 486 The purdah has been hardly any drawback to the women born with any talent for ruling.

1968 Times 6 Apr. (Pakistan Suppl.) p. vii/5 In Pakistan today the observance of purdah is, in the broadest terms, in inverse ratio to social status.

1975 Lang. for Life (Dept. Educ. & Sci.) xx. 293 Mothers may be at work all day, or live in purdah, or speak no English.

1997 Independent (Nexis) 28 Sept. 23 Women are disempowered, the logic runs, because they have to observe purdah.

b. In extended use: seclusion; isolation; secrecy. Chiefly in in (or into, out of) purdah.In quot. 1992: with reference to the tradition (abolished in 1993) that in the period during which a budget statement was being prepared the Chancellor of the Exchequer might not answer questions relating to it.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [noun]

sequestration1565

soleness1587

removednessa1616

sequestera1616

segregation1668

separation1685

insulation1798

isolation1833

social isolation1833

asideness1880

purdah1912

lockdown1984

the world > health and disease > [noun] > good health > state of being conducive to > non-infectious condition > quarantine

quarantine1649

quarantain1669

cordon1826

isolation1891

purdah1912

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > privacy > [adverb] > out of public view

out of the way1554

behind the curtain1677

in pectore1679

in petto1712

behind the scenes1841

in (or into, out of) purdah1912

offstage1959

1912 M. Aurel Stein Ruins of Desert Cathay II. 161 I had ridden out to this secluded spot to enjoy undisturbed work in Purdah, as our Anglo-Indian phrase runs.

1928 J. Galsworthy Swan Song ii. v. 143 The diagnosis of Kit's malady [sc. measles] was soon verified, and Fleur went into purdah.

1958 Times 23 Oct. 15/5 The voluminous Dilke papers..had been kept in purdah by the family piety of the late Miss Tuckwell.

1992 Financial Times 22 Feb. p. III/3 February is the month for pre-Budget speculation. The Chancellor retreats into purdah, and everyone tries to guess what he will announce.

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive.

purdah costume n.

ΚΠ

1905 Daily Chron. 16 Nov. 5/4 The Begum was clothed in strictest purdah costume, and wore a burka.

purdah curtain n.

ΚΠ

1930 Kansas City (Missouri) Star 2 Jan. 11/6 It is in the harems of the East, behind the purdah curtains in India, within the boundaries of Chinese gardens, that the old perfumes linger.

1998 J. L. Esposito & Y. Y. Haddad Islam, Gender & Social Change vii. 132 During the Khilafat Movement..Abadi Begum..began to tug further at the purdah curtain.

purdah screen n.

ΚΠ

1927 Times 5 Jan. 10/6 The Chamber of Princes is beautiful with fretted purdah screens for the veiled ladies, marble panelling, and delicately carved woodwork.

1989 M. Pafford Kipling's Indian Fiction i. 20 The Indian woman, usually invisible behind the purdah screen.

2004 Independent (Nexis) 4 Nov. 36 While using a sari cloth as a makeshift purdah screen as Rajasthani women do to hide behind while bathing, the purdah dropped, revealing the partly undressed women.

purdah system n.

ΚΠ

1886 Times 16 July 3/5 The purdah system prevalent among the Mussulman women tells most injuriously, especially in a closely crowded city like Bombay.

1913 J. H. Morrison On Trail of Pioneers xiv. 65 This purdah system is strictest in the north,..but its baneful influence is felt all over India.

1989 J. Finch Family Obligations & Social Change (BNC) 50 Some recent migrants..already were considerably relaxing arrangements based on the purdah system.

b. In the sense ‘observing purdah’.

purdah girl n.

ΚΠ

1891 E. M. Bliss Encycl. Missions II. 492/2 The Society sustains six day-schools, four of which are for Mohammedan purdah girls.

1945 H. Wernher My Indian Family 49 An uneducated purdah girl for me!

1971 R. Russell tr. A. Ahmad Shore & Wave x. 124 Let purdah girls play the men up.

purdah lady n.

ΚΠ

1896 Evening Bull. (Decatur, Illinois) 5 Feb. 5/3 She insists upon visiting ‘Purdah’ ladies and gives them advice about the abolition of child-marriage.

1993 N.Y. Times Mag. 24 Oct. 138/3 A vision that appeals to the Prince of Wales and his estranged wife, to hip-hop kids in Flatbush, to purdah ladies in Bombay.

† purdah wallah n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1847 M. M. Sherwood in Life (1854) xxi. 356 Amina was..particularly dark for a purdah walla, or one, according to the Eastern custom, who is supposed always to sit behind a purdah, or curtain.

1919 in Evid. Disorders Inquiry Committee (Govt. India) (1920) IV. i. 249/1 I appealed to them saying that I had my purdahwalla family inside and not to disturb us.

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.

C2.

purdah glass n. opaque or tinted glass.

ΚΠ

1922 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 6 Dec. 8/7 A foreign motor car firm advertises..that the windows of its cars are ‘made of Purdah glass, and while the occupants are able to see outside in a subdued light, they themselves are invisible’.

1973 New Society 26 Apr. 198/3 A gilded door of purdah glass.

2002 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 18 Aug. 6-7 Both driving Mini Cooper S-types (Sellers's was mauve, with purdah-glass windows, and wickerwork doors).

purdah party n. a party held for women observing purdah.

ΚΠ

1898 Times 16 Nov. 9/6 Many pleasant ‘purdah’ parties had been arranged, at which ladies of different races learnt to know each other.

1961 A. Hosain Sunlight on Broken Column i. v. 49 The sanctity attached to his profession..made it permissible for the highest born, most secluded Indian ladies to attend her purdah parties.

1999 K. Hickman Daughters of Britannia (2000) viii. 165 Both Masha Williams and Diana Shipton vividly remembered the purdah parties they attended.

Derivatives

ˈpurdahed adj. screened by a purdah; observing purdah; secluded.

ΚΠ

1832 Mrs. Meer Ali Observ. Mussalmans India I. xiv. 380 The hour is passed in lively dialogues with the several purdahed dames.

?1949 L. Durrell Let. in Spirit of Place (1969) 103 All the houses in the Turkish quarter have musharabaya trellis windows for purdah-ed girls.

2002 Scotl. on Sunday (Nexis) 19 May 5 Rashida, and her mother and sisters..are Shia girls whose purdahed life Jamie cannot fully share.

ˈpurdah-like adj.

ΚΠ

1906 Daily Chron. 19 Dec. 4/4 Some of the stories of those early suffrage days show amusing glimpses of the woman of that period in her purdah-like seclusion from the affairs of the world.

1937 Times 12 Feb. 10/5 The..women..will pine for some outlet and be weary of hotels and rooms where they may apparently be left in purdah-like seclusion.

1980 J. Nevadomsky in V. Munasinghe Callaloo or Tossed Salad? (2001) 169 Purdah-like practices..have long been discarded.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	purdah
释义	purdahn. Brit. /ˈpəːdə/, /ˈpəːdɑː/, U.S. /ˈpərdə/ Forms: 1600s 1900s– parda, 1700s purdeh, 1700s– purdah, 1700s– purder, 1800s purdoe, 1800s purdow, 1800s– pardah, 1900s– purda, 2000s– purdha. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Urdu. Partly a borrowing from Persian. Etymons: Urdu parda; Persian parda. Etymology: < Urdu parda curtain, veil, and its etymon Persian parda. 1. a. Originally and chiefly South Asian. A curtain; esp. one used in some Muslim and Hindu communities to screen women from public observation and particularly from the sight of men or strangers. Now frequently in extended use.In quot. 1952 a sheet or veil used as part of a Hindu wedding ceremony. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > [noun] shadowc1200 blindfolding?c1225 coverturec1374 hiding1382 veilc1384 palliation?c1425 covert1574 panoply1576 hoodwink1577 mask1597 cover1600 screena1616 pretexture1618 purdah1621 subterfuge1621 tecture1624 coverlet1628 domino1836 face shield1842 concealment1847 protective colouring1873 camouflage1885 protective coloration1892 smokescreen1926 cover-up1927 scrim1942 marzipan1945 society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [noun] > seclusion of Indian women > curtain purdah1621 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > covers or hangings > [noun] > hangings > curtain curtainc1320 riddelc1380 saya1382 serge1382 veilinga1398 traverse1400 veil1567 purdah1621 scene1638 drapes1908 1621 R. Hughes Let. 31 Mar. in Eng. Factories in India, 1618–21 (1906) 246 I advized you I had cleared with Muckrob Con for those thinges delivered into his circare, to saye, for the parda or peece of tapestrye, 300 rupes. 1792 Minutes Trial Warren Hastings IV. 1699 Curtains made of Cotton stuffed with Wool, these particular Purdahs were. 1809 Visct. Valentia Voy. I. 100 He led me to a small couch close to the purdah, and seated me on his right hand..between his mother and himself, though she was invisible. 1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen i. 9 They passed through no door, but only by the yielding folds of a purder. a1858 D. Wilson in Life (1860) II. xv. 126 Purdahs or curtains of all colours hung from the crenated arches. 1878 G. Graham Life in Mofussil I. 113 Native ladies look upon the confinement behind the purdah as a badge of rank, and also as a sign of chastity. 1927 New Republic 21 Sept. 127/2 Miss Mayo speaks as though the seclusion of women behind the purdah were universal throughout India. 1952 S. Selvon Brighter Sun i. 9 He didn't feel any sexual excitement... Even when he had looked at her face under the purdah—the white sheet thrown over them. 1992 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 20 Dec. e9 India has certainly had this tradition of begums..ruling from behind the purdah. †b. A kind of striped cotton cloth. rare. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > cotton > [noun] > coloured, patterned, or printed > specific pintadoa1575 Salempore1598 chintz1614 nankeenc1700 caffa1701 jamwar1721 nankinett1794 purdah1813 zephyr1819 nankeening1830 calico1841 permanent1854 galatea1874 Madras gingham1880 Turkey red1880 Madras1897 shadow cretonne1932 shadow stripe1932 1813 J. Forbes Oriental Mem. II. xxvii. 518 Purdoe or chintz covering [formed] my curtains. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Purdah, an Indian cotton cloth, with white and blue stripes, used for curtains, etc. c. All-enveloping clothing, esp. in the form of a long veil, worn in public by women in some Muslim communities in order to conceal the face and body. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for head and body > [noun] huke1630 haik1713 feridgi1717 burka1836 anorak1874 paranja1928 buibui1929 purdah1954 jilbab1972 1954 Zanesville (Ohio) Signal 13 Aug. 5/2 (headline) Woman could whip fashion problem by wearing purdah. 1989 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) (Nexis) 26 Sept. a10 Women ought to wear ‘purdah’, the ghost-like female drapery of traditional Moslem culture. 1995 V. Chandra Red Earth & Pouring Rain (1996) 458 Gul Jahaan raised the purdah from her face, the better to speak to him. 2. a. Among women in some Muslim and Hindu communities: the practice of remaining secluded from certain sections of society, particularly men or strangers, esp. by means of a curtain or partition; (also) the practice of veiling the face or concealing the face and body by means of all-enveloping clothing when in public; the state or condition of following these practices. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > privacy > [noun] privity?c1225 recess?1532 retiredness1601 privacy1602 retirement1603 purdah1865 society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [noun] > seclusion of Indian women purdah1865 1865 Daily Tel. 25 Nov. 8/6 As an Occidental, she will not like that tame bird's life inside the lattice cage and the pardah which Oriental wives must bear. 1893 W. S. Burrell & E. E. Cuthell Indian Mem. 23 The veil of the purdah hangs less heavily over Mahommedan than over Bengali women. 1905 19th Cent. Mar. 486 The purdah has been hardly any drawback to the women born with any talent for ruling. 1968 Times 6 Apr. (Pakistan Suppl.) p. vii/5 In Pakistan today the observance of purdah is, in the broadest terms, in inverse ratio to social status. 1975 Lang. for Life (Dept. Educ. & Sci.) xx. 293 Mothers may be at work all day, or live in purdah, or speak no English. 1997 Independent (Nexis) 28 Sept. 23 Women are disempowered, the logic runs, because they have to observe purdah. b. In extended use: seclusion; isolation; secrecy. Chiefly in in (or into, out of) purdah.In quot. 1992: with reference to the tradition (abolished in 1993) that in the period during which a budget statement was being prepared the Chancellor of the Exchequer might not answer questions relating to it. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [noun] sequestration1565 soleness1587 removednessa1616 sequestera1616 segregation1668 separation1685 insulation1798 isolation1833 social isolation1833 asideness1880 purdah1912 lockdown1984 the world > health and disease > [noun] > good health > state of being conducive to > non-infectious condition > quarantine quarantine1649 quarantain1669 cordon1826 isolation1891 purdah1912 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > privacy > [adverb] > out of public view out of the way1554 behind the curtain1677 in pectore1679 in petto1712 behind the scenes1841 in (or into, out of) purdah1912 offstage1959 1912 M. Aurel Stein Ruins of Desert Cathay II. 161 I had ridden out to this secluded spot to enjoy undisturbed work in Purdah, as our Anglo-Indian phrase runs. 1928 J. Galsworthy Swan Song ii. v. 143 The diagnosis of Kit's malady [sc. measles] was soon verified, and Fleur went into purdah. 1958 Times 23 Oct. 15/5 The voluminous Dilke papers..had been kept in purdah by the family piety of the late Miss Tuckwell. 1992 Financial Times 22 Feb. p. III/3 February is the month for pre-Budget speculation. The Chancellor retreats into purdah, and everyone tries to guess what he will announce. Compounds C1. a. General attributive. purdah costume n. ΚΠ 1905 Daily Chron. 16 Nov. 5/4 The Begum was clothed in strictest purdah costume, and wore a burka. purdah curtain n. ΚΠ 1930 Kansas City (Missouri) Star 2 Jan. 11/6 It is in the harems of the East, behind the purdah curtains in India, within the boundaries of Chinese gardens, that the old perfumes linger. 1998 J. L. Esposito & Y. Y. Haddad Islam, Gender & Social Change vii. 132 During the Khilafat Movement..Abadi Begum..began to tug further at the purdah curtain. purdah screen n. ΚΠ 1927 Times 5 Jan. 10/6 The Chamber of Princes is beautiful with fretted purdah screens for the veiled ladies, marble panelling, and delicately carved woodwork. 1989 M. Pafford Kipling's Indian Fiction i. 20 The Indian woman, usually invisible behind the purdah screen. 2004 Independent (Nexis) 4 Nov. 36 While using a sari cloth as a makeshift purdah screen as Rajasthani women do to hide behind while bathing, the purdah dropped, revealing the partly undressed women. purdah system n. ΚΠ 1886 Times 16 July 3/5 The purdah system prevalent among the Mussulman women tells most injuriously, especially in a closely crowded city like Bombay. 1913 J. H. Morrison On Trail of Pioneers xiv. 65 This purdah system is strictest in the north,..but its baneful influence is felt all over India. 1989 J. Finch Family Obligations & Social Change (BNC) 50 Some recent migrants..already were considerably relaxing arrangements based on the purdah system. b. In the sense ‘observing purdah’. purdah girl n. ΚΠ 1891 E. M. Bliss Encycl. Missions II. 492/2 The Society sustains six day-schools, four of which are for Mohammedan purdah girls. 1945 H. Wernher My Indian Family 49 An uneducated purdah girl for me! 1971 R. Russell tr. A. Ahmad Shore & Wave x. 124 Let purdah girls play the men up. purdah lady n. ΚΠ 1896 Evening Bull. (Decatur, Illinois) 5 Feb. 5/3 She insists upon visiting ‘Purdah’ ladies and gives them advice about the abolition of child-marriage. 1993 N.Y. Times Mag. 24 Oct. 138/3 A vision that appeals to the Prince of Wales and his estranged wife, to hip-hop kids in Flatbush, to purdah ladies in Bombay. † purdah wallah n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1847 M. M. Sherwood in Life (1854) xxi. 356 Amina was..particularly dark for a purdah walla, or one, according to the Eastern custom, who is supposed always to sit behind a purdah, or curtain. 1919 in Evid. Disorders Inquiry Committee (Govt. India) (1920) IV. i. 249/1 I appealed to them saying that I had my purdahwalla family inside and not to disturb us. 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. C2. purdah glass n. opaque or tinted glass. ΚΠ 1922 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 6 Dec. 8/7 A foreign motor car firm advertises..that the windows of its cars are ‘made of Purdah glass, and while the occupants are able to see outside in a subdued light, they themselves are invisible’. 1973 New Society 26 Apr. 198/3 A gilded door of purdah glass. 2002 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 18 Aug. 6-7 Both driving Mini Cooper S-types (Sellers's was mauve, with purdah-glass windows, and wickerwork doors). purdah party n. a party held for women observing purdah. ΚΠ 1898 Times 16 Nov. 9/6 Many pleasant ‘purdah’ parties had been arranged, at which ladies of different races learnt to know each other. 1961 A. Hosain Sunlight on Broken Column i. v. 49 The sanctity attached to his profession..made it permissible for the highest born, most secluded Indian ladies to attend her purdah parties. 1999 K. Hickman Daughters of Britannia (2000) viii. 165 Both Masha Williams and Diana Shipton vividly remembered the purdah parties they attended. Derivatives ˈpurdahed adj. screened by a purdah; observing purdah; secluded. ΚΠ 1832 Mrs. Meer Ali Observ. Mussalmans India I. xiv. 380 The hour is passed in lively dialogues with the several purdahed dames. ?1949 L. Durrell Let. in Spirit of Place (1969) 103 All the houses in the Turkish quarter have musharabaya trellis windows for purdah-ed girls. 2002 Scotl. on Sunday (Nexis) 19 May 5 Rashida, and her mother and sisters..are Shia girls whose purdahed life Jamie cannot fully share. ˈpurdah-like adj. ΚΠ 1906 Daily Chron. 19 Dec. 4/4 Some of the stories of those early suffrage days show amusing glimpses of the woman of that period in her purdah-like seclusion from the affairs of the world. 1937 Times 12 Feb. 10/5 The..women..will pine for some outlet and be weary of hotels and rooms where they may apparently be left in purdah-like seclusion. 1980 J. Nevadomsky in V. Munasinghe Callaloo or Tossed Salad? (2001) 169 Purdah-like practices..have long been discarded. 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