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Перевод: purdah

[существительное]
занавеска, отделяющая женскую половину; полосатая материя для занавесок; затворничество женщин

Тезаурус:

1. This system is finely attuned to new ventures in marketing and distribution, and is probably quite similar to the major South Asian forms of production which had previously established the foundations for large-scale international trade, in the absence of industrial machinery; although, in that case, divisions in the production process, which allowed for control by merchants and middlemen, were more closely articulated by social divisions such as caste and purdah .
2. But in the Thirties and Seventies, legs went into purdah.
3. "That doesn't sound too awful - or does it mean you'll be in purdah?"
4. Most of her purdah days were spent in these beauty treatments, perfuming and powdering.
5. Indeed Saifullah Khan was able to report even from her data collected in the mid-1970s that some recent migrants, especially those best equipped to survive in Britain economically without the support of kin, already were considerably relaxing arrangements based on the purdah system.
6. "Or perhaps you would like me to inveigle her out of her self-imposed purdah and come up here instead of you going down to Four Winds."
7. Such arrangements are also often associated with the custom of keeping men's and women's worlds sharply segregated, although as Saifullah Khan (1976) points out in her discussion of purdah in Bradford, the luxury of remaining truly separate could only ever be afforded by the comparatively wealthy.
8. He did not believe that a long period of purdah was necessary, and the general rule that such a record could not be published until thirty years after the event was indeed ridiculous, since it has been honoured only in the breach.
9. In truth she wasn't really interested in Taureg 's arrival, but anything that broke the self-imposed purdah of her existence was welcome, she supposed, for she still stood outside the real world, looking in; a part of her still waited in Yeoman's Lane and none of this strangeness around her was really happening.
10. While the labourers were on the boat, he insisted that Melinda go into purdah.
11. I know there's an attitude at home - men are people but women are only women - but that's not the same things as putting your women in purdah."
12. The mother of the groom may also ask to see the bride and she will be taken off to a remote room in the bride's house, away from the eyes of other members of her hareem, for the bride is in strict purdah for the coming wedding.
13. The month before the wedding, she was not only in complete purdah, but was involved in one long beauty session as well.