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- noun Alternative spelling of
chador .
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Examples
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He put the _chuddah_ back from his head and regarded her gravely.
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His basket was by his side; his _chuddah_ drooped low over his face; he sat quite motionless, save for a certain palsied quivering, which she had observed before.
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A tangled black beard hung wisplike from the dirty _chuddah_ that draped his head, and above it two eyes, fevered and furtive, peered strangely forth.
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He lifted his head a little and, from the depths of the _chuddah_, she knew that piercing eyes surveyed her.
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The enveloping _chuddah_ slipped back from his head.
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He put up a hand abruptly and stripped the ragged hair from his face, pushing back the heavy folds of the _chuddah_ that enveloped his head as he did so.
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She looked down and saw an old, old man, more like a monkey than a human being, standing huddled in a ragged _chuddah_ on the edge of the path.
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The voluminous _chuddah_ in which he was swathed looked as if it had wrapped him in those selfsame folds for many years.
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He loosened the _chuddah_ from his own head and stooped to muffle it about hers.
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He was wrapped in a long, very dirty, white _chuddah_, from which his face peered weirdly forth, wrinkled and old, almost supernaturally old, she thought to herself.
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