purdah

How to use purdah in a sentence

• The purdah rustled, and the speech was cut short by the entry of a little thin woman, with big rings round her eyes.

  Under the Deodars | Rudyard Kipling

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

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

• In the huts there was scarce one piece of furniture, save perhaps a bed or a roll of matting or a ragged purdah.

  Told on the Pagoda | Mimosa