The guns are kept loaded inside the purdah at the hall do or

W. H. Ru ell, Diary in India, II. 103. (b) A curtain screening women of superior rank from the sight of men and from contact with strangers. The doctor is permitted to approach the purdah , and put the hand through a small aperture in order to feel the patient's pulse. Williams on , East India Vade Mecum, I. 130. [( Yule and Burnell .) Hence-(c) The kind of seclusion in which such women constituting mark of rank. (d) The material of which the curtain is made; especially, a fine kind of mat ting, or a cotton cloth woven in white and blue stripes. purdahed (pér'dad), a . [ purdah + -ed2.] Screened by a purdah or curtain: said of a Mos lem woman of rank. The hour is pa ed in lively dialogues with the several purdahed dames.