zenana
Example Sentences
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The buzzing sound of UAVs has been ubiquitous in Gaza since 2006, and drones are called zenana, an Arabic word referring to the sound using the slang term for a nagging wife.
From Salon ● Nov. 11, 2024
Woman in Burmah also is comparatively free, neither the zenana nor the veil prevailing there.
From Oriental Women by Edward Bagby Pollard
Next morning he hears the magician, too honest by half, enquiring at the front door, with much expression of condolence, for the unfortunate young man who had lost his ropes in his own zenana.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various
It will be your voice and not our sister's that will hold the attention of the zenana.
From The Outcaste by F. E. Penny
Here the seclusion of the Turkish harem and the Hindoo zenana does not exist, and the women are probably the freest, most independent of the women of the East.
From Oriental Women by Edward Bagby Pollard
