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Purdah Prop Crossword Clue

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noun

• a garment that covers the head and face

• a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms

• the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)

• a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl

verb

• to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil

• make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing

46%6Purdah's place
noun

• A harem on the Indian subcontinent; a part of the house reserved for high-caste women; a system of segregating women into harems.

• An effeminate or crossdressing male in northern India or Pakistan. (Also spelled zanána.)

32%6 Short form of purdah?
adjective satellite

• not having enough money to pay for necessities

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New York Times13 Jan 1980 Across 56
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