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Definition of purdah noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

 

purdah

 noun
noun
NAmE//ˈpərdə//
 
[uncountable]
 
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the system in some Muslim societies by which women live in a separate part of a house or cover their faces so that men do not see them to be in purdah He kept his daughters in virtual purdah.
See purdah in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary