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n. - A cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women.

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  • Flower petals are seen on a 'chadar' as pilgrims proceed with it towards the dargah, or shrine, on Monday.
  • India's Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi, third left, poses with a 'chadar' at her residence in New Delhi on Monday.
  • But now not only has the number of participants gone up but the size of the 'chadar' that is offered by devotees has also increased to 300 feet.
  • Going down a ward at night, one might see four hundred or more of these convicts, each enveloped from head to foot in a "chadar," or native sheet, literally over head...
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