How To Use Purdah In A Sentence
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He kept his daughters in virtual purdah.
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The women in the village live in purdah.
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Phil struggled to get back to reality after his purdah in the UK.
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It was election purdah at the time so the concordat was not released.
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Rational Review
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We hold separate gatherings in our home and observe purdah as much as possible so it isn't that we're looking for any way possible to go against the commandments of Allah.
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Behind Dalip's throne hung a fine lace curtain, the purdah of his mother, the Maharani — it being the custom of quality Indian ladies to seclude themselves, when they ain't belly-dancing at orgies, that is.
Flashman and the Mountain of Light
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For example, women do not practice purdah, or seclusion.
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It represents a small assault on the bastion of purdah.
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It seems unlikely that they will all go off on holiday for the duration of the election campaign or adopt the equivalent of the ministerial purdah.
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For me the maharanee had discarded the purdah, and in the sanctity of my harem, with my wife as her devoted attendant, I was privileged to converse with her hour after hour, gazing freely upon the most beautiful countenance
Tales of Destiny
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To console himself he settled down to read Tagore's story _Ghare-Baire_ in which a zamindar persuades his wife to come out of purdah, whereupon she takes up with a firebrand politico involved in the "swadeshi" campaign, and the zamindar winds up dead.
The Satanic Verses
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Government regulations require councils to remain strictly impartial once an election is called, commonly called the "purdah" period.
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The reason for his decision to end his almost four-decade-long state of purdah is that he wants to lend his support to a new collection of his work, 40: A Doonesbury Retrospective.
Garry Trudeau: 'Doonesbury quickly became a cause of trouble'
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Outlawing of polygamy and purdah within Islam and a call for the emancipation of Mulsim women also find place in that period.
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When they become possessed by their spirits, these demure, purdah-confined ladies undergo a remarkable change.
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He also bragged about lobbying on a multimillion-pound contract that was in official 'purdah'.
Times, Sunday Times
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The degree and kind (the actual veiling or seclusion) of purdah observed by women has varied across time and place and from family to family and is also related to class status.
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Will you be imposing a pub-opening purdah?
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During a general election campaign, civil servants go into what is called purdah, where policy-making is supposed to stop, to avoid politically sensitive announcements.
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Their wives wear burqas and observe strict purdah.
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In this region women seldom venture out of purdah.
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The Commission knows of no reason in law why a budget should not be presented during an election campaign, although by well-established convention significant government announcements are avoided in the "purdah" period running up to general elections.
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He deprecated the practice of purdah and sati, encouraged inter-caste alliances and remarriage of widows.
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He has barely been seen or heard in the media since he went into purdah in the wake of the donation revelations.
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Traditionally, the custom of purdah (seclusion of women) was not followed.
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The origin of the term purdah is: "Purdah or Pardaa Persian: پرده, Urdu: پردہ, Hindi: पर्दा, literally meaning "curtain" is the practice of preventing men from seeing women.
Fascinating purdah hits the headlines
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Its famous Palace of the Winds is actually just a wafer-thin facade designed to enable the court's women to observe processions in style, without compromising their purdah.
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It is wise in the hot weather to pull the purdah, which is the Indian way of saying to shut the door, in the face of a young and unattached girl with a tawny head and opalescent eyes; especially if the dust has long been undisturbed upon the threshold of the secret places of the male heart supposed to be entirely in your keeping.
Leonie of the Jungle
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Purdah is observed much more loosely and sometimes not at all by women when they are with their natal families.
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During purdah they deliberately avoided issues that may breach purdah.
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The idea of purdah was acquired from Persian and Byzantine societies, which secluded women out of deference and honor, not in order to humiliate them.
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For a woman, a death in the home - with purdah, which literally means curtain - is a death of honor.
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Although in the forties, women in the "family way" were no longer confined to their homes to conceal their delicate conditions, those conditions were still confined to a kind of cinematic purdah.
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With the civil service now going into purdah for the European and English county council elections, an announcement isn't expected until next month.
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The room was stuffy: the windows were shut and the green-and-white striped curtains drawn in purdah.
God’s Country
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Traditionally, there's something called purdah, which prohibits women from going to public spaces ...
South Asian Women Caught Between Tradition and Modernity
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You make it sound as though I'm in purdah ," she pro-tested, but she knew what he meant.
THE GOSPEL MAKERS
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There was also a small handwritten paper extolling the value of purdah - wearing the veil.
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The idea that if one gives up a customary religious practice such as purdah, that one is ceasing to be a Muslim altogether is an egregious misrepresentation of what it takes to be a Muslim.
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When they become possessed by their spirits, these demure, purdah-confined ladies undergo a remarkable change.
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The data was said to be delayed because of the official "purdah" period, which prevents civil servants from releasing overtly party political information, even though this only officially begins once the election has been called.
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In fact the conditions are all opposite, the sincere affection is highest of... the expectation can meet a rightness in right time soon of you, Uncover the purdah of sweet life together!
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He tried to liberate women from the practices of purdah (wearing a veil) as well as preaching strongly against the practice of sati (Hindu wife burning on her husbands funeral pyre).
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In this region women seldom venture out of purdah.
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He proposed abandonment of purdah and more freedom to women..
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After eight years of purdah, the former presidents have finally emerged into the glare of the television cameras.
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On the contrary, teenage girls today are observing purdah.
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Having escaped the law her only option was self-imposed purdah on a remote Scottish island.
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The run-up to an election is known as "purdah", during which there is a ban on public money being spent on policies or announcements that could affect the result.
Evening Standard - Home
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It was almost like saying, "please, please go into purdah and don't appear until you've had this child and look like a normal human being again."
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[246] The purdah is the curtain separating the women's apartments from the rest of the house.
The New World of Islam
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In the sense of attire, purdah can denote the practice of completely covering a woman's body by wearing a loose, body-covering robe called the burqa.
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The bride remains in purdah until the wedding.
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It's a magnum opus of a double album, too, which is good news, for if all she had managed to come up with after a dozen years in purdah were 10 songs and 40 minutes of music, we might well have felt short-changed.
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Election purdah is no longer just those few weeks of a campaign, it should be now really.
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Children's reputations stand and fall on the size of the goody bag their guests are offered—if it doesn't contain a computer console, a DVD, and a phone they will be in social purdah until their next birthday.
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Close to the spot where the maharanee had halted were some hangings of brocade arranged, as we understood later, so that the seated and veiled figure of a woman might observe the brilliant pageantry of the day from the privacy of this purdah.
Tales of Destiny
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She has been brought up somewhat on Western principles; has kept but casual purdah; is unbetrothed at eighteen; nor would any orthodox prince marry her.
Love and Life Behind the Purdah
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In this region women seldom venture out of purdah.
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She had rejected that objection on the grounds that the campaign ended before the start of the local election "purdah" period.
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Arts diary: Decline and Fall Grouchy rock star scraps with burghers What with being beaten up by his own band - after he attacked them on stage in New York - you'd think a period of purdah might be in order for The Fall's Mark E. Smith, the gobbiest man in rock.
FallNet - Riot Grrls fronted by fit'n'working again bloke on loudhailer
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Do they want him to go around hanging his head in shame, in some sort of judicial purdah?
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The implication was that the government is bound by pre-election purdah—the convention that the civil service does not make major announcements in the six weeks before elections.
