Crossword-Solution: PARDAH
We have 7 clues for the answer “PARDAH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| INDIAN system of secluding women of rank | 1 answer |
| HINDU curtain | 2 answers |
| INDIAN curtain | 2 answers |
| HINDU screen | 4 answers |
| INDIAN screen | 4 answers |
| purdah | 8 answers |
| Curtain | 30 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PARDAH (5)
THE PARDAH NASHIN Her life is a revolving dream Of languid and sequestered ease; Her girdles and her fillets gleam Like changing fires on sunset seas; Her raiment is like morning mist, Shot opal, gold and amethyst.
Yet, amongst the Pardah, or miuscal modes of the East, we find the Hijazi ranking with the Isfahani and the Iraki.
But look at her cloth, half brown and half white! Has she gone mad, to show herself to the troops in this way? No _pardah_, no sheets!" "Perhaps she will go into one of the tents," suggested Charteris, as much puzzled as his friend, and Gerrard advanced hesitatingly, unable to conceive why the troops did not actively resent this unheard-of violation of etiquette.
Forbidden cities are so fascinating, and the idea of assisting in drawing aside a pardah so appeals to our rude imaginations, that the desire to reach Lhassa was especially great.
The Indian harem system is also commonly known as _pardah_ or _purdah_, literally the name of the thick curtains or blinds which are used instead of doors to separate the women's quarters from the rest of the house.