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  • noun Plural form of chador.

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Examples

  • So many of my liberal, agnostic women friends from college gradually relinquished their freedoms and decided to spend the rest of their lives in chadors, avoiding the gaze of man.

    Cheap Laughs 2009

  • So many of my liberal, agnostic women friends from college gradually relinquished their freedoms and decided to spend the rest of their lives in chadors, avoiding the gaze of man.

    Cheap Laughs 2009

  • If this was being intoned on-air by Jon Stewart, the cue for massive studio-audience laughter would have been activated at the word chadors, allowing him to beam modestly and likably through the mildly suggestive last four words.

    Cheap Laughs 2009

  • If this was being intoned on-air by Jon Stewart, the cue for massive studio-audience laughter would have been activated at the word chadors, allowing him to beam modestly and likably through the mildly suggestive last four words.

    Cheap Laughs 2009

  • Women in long black robes, known as chadors, wore Iranian flags tied around their necks or underneath their head covering.

    unknown title 2009

  • Women in long black robes, known as chadors, wore Iranian flags tied around their necks or underneath their head covering.

    unknown title 2009

  • Women in long black robes, known as chadors, wore Iranian flags tied around their necks or underneath their head covering.

    unknown title 2009

  • Later, as we hunted for ajraks and other memorabilia, I was a little overwhelmed by the posters and pictures of BB being sold along with the spiritual souveniours such as chadors, tabrauk and roses for the shrine.

    Bloggers.Pakistan 2009

  • Later, as we hunted for ajraks and other memorabilia, I was a little overwhelmed by the posters and pictures of BB being sold along with the spiritual souveniours such as chadors, tabrauk and roses for the shrine.

    Pak Tea House 2009

  • Taken together, the two women exemplify a rare passage through historic homosocial barriers, n both cases the chadors and screens of hijab that keep fundamentalist Muslim women and men apart at the same time that they keep steeply Islamic societies from being understood by the modern, secular world.

    G. Roger Denson: XX Chromosocial: Women Artists Cross The Homosocial Divide G. Roger Denson 2011

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