Purdah
English Meaning
A curtain or screen; also, a cotton fabric in blue and white stripes, used for curtains.
- A curtain or screen, used mainly in India to keep women separate from men or strangers.
- The Hindu or Muslim system of sex segregation, practiced especially by keeping women in seclusion.
- Social seclusion: "Never have artists been more separate: their inordinate fame, wealth, drug use have driven them into luxurious purdah” ( D. Keith Mano).