burka

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Wahida Valiante, chair of the Canadian Islamic Congress, said the right to wear a burka is absolutely covered by the Charter and no one can dictate what constitutes proper religious practice.

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  1. noun Variant of burqa.

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  • Even though I still have my blouse and trousers and boots, once the burka is completely off—a sad puddle of violet cloth on the couch next to me—I feel naked. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • I want to say solemnly, the burka is not welcome in France. —  BrothersJudd Blog
  • Imagine a liberation that threw aside the sexual burka, the invisible but ubiquitous garment that determines a rigid hierarchy of desirability and glamour, so that the beauty of the wise, the kind, the merciful and the noble might appear once more through the shallow virtue of the skin-deep. —  Greenman's Occasional Organ
  • She should do that in a desert wearing a burka, then see how funny the video is. —  threebillion.com
  • He was arrested in July 2007 trying to slip away from the besieged building dressed in burka, a head-to-toe clothing worn by Muslim women. —  The Earth Times Online Newspaper
 

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