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n. A curtain or screen, used mainly in India to keep women separate from men or strangers.

n. The Hindu or Muslim system of sex segregation, practiced especially by keeping women in seclusion.

n. Social seclusion: "Never have artists been more separate: their inordinate fame, wealth, drug use have driven them into luxurious purdah” ( D. Keith Mano).

n. A curtain, especially as used to conceal and divide women from men and strangers in some Hindu or Muslim traditions.

n. A striped cotton cloth which is used to make curtains.

n. A long veil, or other all-enveloping clothing, worn by women in some Muslim societies.

n. The state or system of social gender seclusion in some Muslim or Hindu communities.

n. The time between the announcement and holding of an election, during which any governmental activities that may be construed as potentially benefiting or promoting a specific political party or prospective candidate are halted or suspended.

n. The period after plans have been prepared but before the Chancellor of the Exchequer's annual budget is announced, when he refrains from discussing any matters which have relevance to the forthcoming budget.

n. A curtain or screen; also, a cotton fabric in blue and white stripes, used for curtains.

n. In India, a curtain.

n. A curtain screening women of superior rank from the sight of men and from contact with strangers.

n. Hence — The kind of seclusion in which such women live, constituting a mark of rank.

n. The material of which the curtain is made; especially, a fine kind of matting, or a cotton cloth woven in white and blue stripes.

In India, to screen with a purdah.

n. a state of social isolation

n. a screen used in India to separate women from men or strangers

n. the traditional Hindu or Muslim system of keeping women secluded

"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."

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