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
“Did you not tell me that Nur Mahal inhabits that portion of the zenana situate over the Water Gate?”
From The Great Mogul by Louis Tracy
The rajah receives the utterpan from his wife, of whom he may demand that the rose-water perfuming be performed in the zenana.
From Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale by M?r J?kai
It was when he went into the zenana.
From Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches by T. L. (Theodore Leighton) Pennell
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
