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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
purdah /ˈpəːdə/

▶noun

1 the practice in certain Muslim and Hindu societies of screening women from men or strangers by means of a curtain or all-enveloping clothes.

2 a curtain used in this way.

– origin C19: from Urdu and Pers. parda ‘veil, curtain’.

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