purdah

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Purdah is a long standing convention whereby governments refrain from making any major announcements in the run-up to general elections or other polls to avoid influencing their outcome.

From BBC • Sep. 8, 2015

"Even in France, where they've been kept so strictly, the old law of Purdah has been more or less relaxed."

From The Inner Shrine by King, Basil

In our Social Service class, which is held every Thursday, there has come up a suggestion about opening up a few Purdah Parks for Indian ladies.

From Lighted to Lighten: the Hope of India by Doren, Alice B. Van

The seclusion of the zenana, and all the customs peculiar to it, are designated by the general term "Purdah", which means Screen.

From The Home and the World by Tagore, Rabindranath

Purdah, pur′d�, n. a curtain screening a chamber of state or the women's apartments: the seclusion itself.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various