The room was stuffy: the windows were shut and the green-and-white striped curtains drawn in purdah. From Wordnik.com. [God’s Country] Reference
Traditionally, there's something called purdah, which prohibits women from going to public spaces. From Wordnik.com. [South Asian Women Caught Between Tradition and Modernity] Reference
The word "purdah" has been banned by the Welsh Assembly lest it offend Muslims. From Wordnik.com. [Multiculturalism Bans a Word] Reference
If "purdah" is acceptable, then is it also acceptable to say that someone has "welshed" on a deal ?. From Wordnik.com. [Purdah] Reference
purdah, the practice, is more objectionable than the now common use of 'purdah' in perfectly ordinary English. From Wordnik.com. [Purdah] Reference
As the "purdah" period started, he refrained from discussing monetary policy issues. From Wordnik.com. [FXstreet.com] Reference
Strict adherence to the 'purdah', an integral part of Pashtun society, has kept women here almost invisible. From Wordnik.com. [NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories] Reference
There are only a few weeks in which it could make an announcement before general election 'purdah' descends on Whitehall. From Wordnik.com. [E-Health Insider News] Reference
"purdah" rules which come into force during elections. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
"purdah", placing restrictions on decision making in order to de-politicise government activity. From Wordnik.com. [Epolitix News] Reference
These are the people who are going to save us from purdah?. From Wordnik.com. [Barbara Ehrenreich: Happy Fascism Awareness Week!] Reference
And Peter Hoskin asks whether purdah only applies to bad news. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
Mention of purdah reminded Thorby that Margaret would see Mata. From Wordnik.com. [Citizen Of The Galaxy]
Clinton paid a social call on a politician's wife who kept purdah. From Wordnik.com. [Mayhill Fowler: A New Foreign Policy: Hillary Clinton Targets Pakistan] Reference
Behind the purdah will I place thee, hidden from all eyes but mine. From Wordnik.com. [Leonie of the Jungle] Reference
Then his campaign puts her in purdah - and will not let anyone near her. From Wordnik.com. [Letting Sarah Palin Answer Questions Is Very, Very Dangerous] Reference
And what new pseudonymn will you assume when you return from your purdah?. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Having stayed in purdah for weeks, she finally agreed to a third interview. From Wordnik.com. [Palin Is Ready? Please.] Reference
A slave — that stands by her mistress's purdah in durbar, and speaks for her. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman and the Mountain of Light]
He kept her in such deep, secluded purdah that she was never glimpsed by anyone. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
As anyone not in deep purdah knows, many computers don't recognize the 21st century. From Wordnik.com. [Bugged By Y2k?] Reference
She's going to get old real fast - which may be one reason they are keeping in purdah. From Wordnik.com. [A Word On McCain's Heroism And His Speech Tonight] Reference
And this was in a family or community which did not observe purdah of any kind at all. From Wordnik.com. [What Educated Women Can Do] Reference
Think of it as a political purdah so that they can shape up for their showdown in Miami. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 27, 2004] Reference
Three years of purdah later, she has emerged in a new home, New York, utterly transformed. From Wordnik.com. [Cécilia Attias: 'I am still here'] Reference
The future is surely not with the so-called white races if they keep themselves in purdah. From Wordnik.com. [OLIVER TAMBO AND THE STRUGGLE AGAINST APARTHEID] Reference
"Mai Jeendan had hoped to come out from purdah to greet you after the durbar," confides he. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman and the Mountain of Light]
She let herself be put in purdah, protected, handled, and handheld by that same dirty old man. From Wordnik.com. [Early Snap Polls: Biden Won Handily] Reference
How can an ideology that aims to push half the human race into purdah hope to claim the moral high ground?. From Wordnik.com. [Barbara Ehrenreich: Give Me That Old-Time Feminism] Reference
She slid her hand into his, and followed him docilely as he lifted the reed purdah and entered her bedroom. From Wordnik.com. [Leonie of the Jungle] Reference
We were looking down on the durbar room, at a point directly above the purdah curtain which enclosed one end of it. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman and the Mountain of Light]
At the time they met, she had recently chosen to live in purdah, behind a full veil and a wall of silence with most men. From Wordnik.com. [SCHOOL DAYS WITH A QAEDA SUSPECT] Reference
The towering statues by Jamil Baloch seem to convey the message that women, even in purdah, are giants, ruling the realm. From Wordnik.com. [Surprised, General?] Reference
She's going to get real old real fast, I think - which may be one reason they have totally decided to put her in purdah. From Wordnik.com. [A Word On McCain's Heroism And His Speech Tonight] Reference
The details of purdah, mutilation and polygamy are literal truths so alien to Western experience that they may be read as metaphor. From Wordnik.com. [An Arab Woman Lifts The Veil] Reference
If on Monday, The Sun and The Daily Mail demand a vote Cameron will likely come out of what, as Tim notes, is his self-imposed purdah. From Wordnik.com. [Referendum politics] Reference
"Your woman in purdah, yes, but you can comb the pleasure houses," Helva found herself aghast at the edge to her carefully trained voice. From Wordnik.com. [the ship who sang]
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