chador
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- Scrabble points
- 12
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- 12
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Definition of chador
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A loose robe made from a single cloth, worn as a combination head covering, veil and shawl by chiefly Muslim women (and occasionally by those of other faiths) in Iran and South Asia.
“Holonym: hijab”
“The Commodities are infinite: […] Pintados, Chints and Chadors, Shashes and Girdles, Cannakens[…]”
“If those tablets were in Arabia, I'd put on a chador and burn my driver's licence and go there.”
“The first few times Dolly stepped out into the city, cloaked by a chaddar that impaired her vision, she intuitively grabbed Sekond Lal's hand.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi चादर (cādar) / Urdu چادَر (cādar), from Classical Persian چَادُر (čādur) or چَادَر (čādar), from Sanskrit छत्त्र (chattra). Doublet of chatra and chatta. Spelling possibly influenced by modern Iranian Persian چادُر (čâdor) or another language.
Anagrams of chador
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