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Muslim And Hindu Custom Of Keeping Women Secluded

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noun

• a state of social isolation

• the traditional Hindu or Muslim system of keeping women secluded

• a screen used in India to separate women from men or strangers

33%10 Involving a secluded or secluded life
adjective

• of or relating to or befitting eremites or their practices of hermitic living

adjective satellite

• characterized by ascetic solitude

33%8 Referring to a secluded or secluded place
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