Crossword-Solution: LACHA 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

This word is _Lacha_, which with them is the corporeal chastity of the females; we say corporeal chastity, for no other do they hold in the slightest esteem; it is lawful among them, nay praiseworthy, to be obscene in look, gesture and discourse, to be accessories to vice, and to stand by and laugh at the worst abominations of the Busne (gorgios, or gentiles) provided their _Lacha ye trupos_, or corporeal chastity, remains unblemished.

The oath must be uttered two hours after midnight, when their priest is on the tower, or, if there is no tower, when he goes out on a mound and begins to cry with his fingers in his ears: Lai Lacha i Lalach Mohammed Rossulach esse de Miellai, Lala i Lalach! They swear then on books called Hamaeli, at the bottom of which is depicted the sabre of Ali, the assistant of Mohammed,--this sabre they call Delfikari.

From the Indus to Gibraltar the contrast of obscenity in language and in songs with corporal chastity--a lacha ye drupo, “body shame,” as they term it--has ever been a distinctive characteristic.