Lexicographical Neighbors of Purdas
Literary usage of Purdas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Analytical Digest of the Cases Published in the New Series of the Law by Francis Towers Streeten, Ewen Henry Cameron (1843)
"purdas, 310 — d. Barry v. Roe, 224 — d. Batchelor v. Bowles, 649 — d. Bath v.
Clarke, 648 — d. Bath v. Roe, 224 — d. Baverstock v. Rolfe, 159 — d. Beard v. ..."
2. Narrative of the War in Affghanistan in 1838-39 by Henry Havelock (1840)
"Timely and agile flight, therefore, seems to afford the only hope of shunning
suffocation; but thus to escape is not always an easy matter, if purdas and ..."
3. Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque: During Four-and-twenty by Fanny Parkes Parlby (1850)
"... the Prince took the bride up in his arms, in her lump-like position, and
carried her to her palanquin, the purdas of which were then let down, ..."
4. Diary of Travels and Adventures in Upper India: With a Tour in Bundelcund, a by Charles James C. Davidson (1843)
"Ladies of rank carried with them their own purdas or screens, within which they
bathed, unseen by the rude mob. ..."
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