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Definition of Chadars
1. chadar [n] - See also: chadar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chadars
Literary usage of Chadars
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan: Including a Summer in the Upper Karun by Isabella Lucy Bird (1891)
"The fifteen ladies held their gay chadars to their faces so as to show only one
eye, so I sent Mirza behind a curtain and asked for the pleasure of seeing ..."
2. Picturesque India: A Handbook for European Travellers by William Sproston Caine (1891)
"The plain shawls, white, blue, gray or crimson, known as Rampur chadars, ...
These chadars are often embroidered along the border with the same needlework ..."
3. The Gospel in All Lands by Missionary Society, Methodist Episcopal Church (1896)
"... when the collection toward paying the debt of the Missionary Society was taken,
one poor woman who had only two chadars (pieces of cloth for covering ..."
4. Hand-book of the Economic Products of the Punjab: With a Combined Index and by Baden Henry Baden-Powell (1872)
"Of these fabrics about Es. 70000 worth are annually exported,but by far the
largest manufacturers that of the shawls and chadars made of soft ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1908)
"... country where the Scythians lived, she went down among the women, who were
wailing in concert, with their chadars drawn tightly over their heads. ..."
6. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1887)
"... and known as Rampur chadars; but the greater part is bought up by merchants
for exportation to British India. The hill paths are so steep that most of ..."
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