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Definition of Chuddar
1. Noun. A cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women.
Definition of Chuddar
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of chador) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chuddar
1. a large, square shawl [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chuddar
Literary usage of Chuddar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Glimpses of Fifty Years: The Autobiography of an American Woman by Frances Elizabeth Willard (1889)
"Her simple dress of gray silk, guiltless of occidental humps and trains and
furbelows, and her native "chuddar" the white wrap of the East—attest her ..."
2. The English Illustrated Magazine (1897)
"... the road they will in most instances veil the face with their chuddar, but
they think not of the portion of their bodies that remains uncovered below. ..."
3. Twenty Years in Persia: A Narrative of Life Under the Last Three Shahs by John G. Wishard (1908)
"A few years ago, one of the daughters of Nasr-ed-Din Shah threw aside her veil
and chuddar and went to Europe " to learn something," as I heard it. ..."
4. The Gospel in All Lands by Missionary Society, Methodist Episcopal Church (1888)
"Drying her eyes, she got a clean white chuddar (the large piece of cloth the
girls in India wear instead of a hat) and started off upon her journey. ..."
5. The Forward Policy and Its Results by Richard Isaac Bruce (1900)
"... and—' Here it is,' he said, holding up the bundle in his chuddar. I confess
that for the moment I felt rather nonplussed, and, as a magistrate, ..."
6. Women of the Orient: An Account of the Religious, Intellectual, and Social by Ross C. Houghton (1877)
"In her room, a woman may lay aside this chuddar; but outside she must always be
enveloped in it, not appearing without it, even before her own husband, ..."
7. India's Women: The Magazine of the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society by Church of England Zenana Missionary Society (1894)
"She had a chuddar or turban, but as she never had time to put it on properly,
she tore about the whole afternoon with many yards of muslin ..."
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