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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
chador
noun
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▪ Thus women who would never have considered donning this cumbersome apparel quickly saw that the chador conferred a kind of protection.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chador

"cloth worn as a shawl by Muslim women," from Persian chadar "tent, mantle, scarf, veil, sheet, table-cloth."

Wiktionary
chador

n. A loose robe, made from a single cloth, worn as a combination head covering, veil and shawl by Muslim women, especially in Iran.

WordNet
chador

n. a cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women [syn: chadar, chaddar, chuddar]

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Chador

A chādor or chādar , also known variously in English as chadah, chad(d)ar, chader, chud(d)ah, chadur, shador and naturalized as is an outer garment or open cloak worn by many Iranian women and female teenagers in public spaces or outdoors. A chador is a full-body-length semicircle of fabric that is open down the front. This cloth is tossed over the woman's or girl's head, but then she holds it closed in the front. The chador has no hand openings, or any buttons, clasps, etc., but rather it is held closed by her hands or tucked under the wearer's arms.

Usage examples of "chador".

These people were probably Muslims, though since Bosniak women did not wear the chador there was no way to single them out.

Except for stumbling now and then, because I could see the ground only dimly through the obscuring snow and my chador, and also because I frequently stepped on my own hems, I got back to the karwansarai without incident.

In fact they grilled Jilly as if they believed a chador and a submachine gun were concealed under the car seat, and they studied Fred with wariness and skepticism, as though convinced that he was of Mideastern origin, held fanatical political views, and harbored evil intentions.

The chadors started at their chins and hung all the way to their ankles.

Twenty-three teenage girls, in bright chadors and head scarves, sewing clothes.

She had never played a role before, unless it was when they were in Iran, if wearing a chador and not speaking was the same as playing a role.

In the very early morning she had snuck out of her dingy little room, donned a chador and veil as was necessary to travel unescorted, and made her way several blocks to the square.

Persian women in black chadors and veils worked clacking looms, turning silk thread into fine, shimmering cloth.

After wearing a chador for three months, I don't think a space suit will bother me.

There were the usual types of real-life weirdos -- clippies and stickies and nudies and people walking about shrouded in opaque anonymity chadors -- but all of this was secondary.

About ten minutes before his plane was to board, a tall Muslim woman wearing the traditional black head covering and long black robesa pushi and abaya, not the chador, which covered the eyes as well as the head and bodysat down across the aisle from him.

No doubt I'd find a gray or ebony version of my girlfriend inside, swathed in the robes of a virtuality chador, laboring to fulfill some academic requirement in her latest major maybe Bantu Linguistics or Chinese Military History -- I couldn't follow the way her interests kept swerving, like a hundred million other permanent students on this continent alone.

She fought her way free of the enveloping chador and didn't even notice the hot cartridge shell that immediately skimmed her right cheek.

There were singles, couples, entire families, blacks and whites and Asians and Latinos and four towering Samoan men all with black porkpie hats, beautiful sloe-eyed women willow graceful in their turquoise or ruby or sapphire saris, others in chadors and others in jeans, men in business suits, men in shorts and bright Polo shirts, four young Hasidic Jews arguing (but joyfully) over the most mystical of all documents (a Los Angeles freeway map), uniformed soldiers, giggling children and shrieking children and two placid octogenarians in wheelchairs, a pair of tall Arab princes in akals and keffiyehs and flowing jellabas, preceded by fierce bodyguards and trailed by retinues, beacon-red tourists drifting homeward on the astringent fumes of medicated sunburn lotion, pale tourists arriving with the dampish smell of cloudy country clinging to them -and, like a white boat strangely serene in a typhoon, the man in the Panama hat sailing imperiously through the polygenic sea.

There were singles, couples, entire families, blacks and whites and Asians and Latinos and four towering Samoan men all with black porkpie hats, beautiful sloe-eyed women wil-low graceful in their turquoise or ruby or sapphire saris, others in chadors and others in jeans, men in business suits, men in shorts and bright Polo shirts, four young Hasidic Jews argu-ing (but joyfully) over the most mystical of all documents (a Los Angeles freeway map), uniformed soldiers, giggling children and shrieking children and two placid octogenarians in wheel-chairs, a pair of tall Arab princes in akals and keffiyehs and flowing jellabas, preceded by fierce bodyguards and trailed by retinues, beacon-red tourists drifting homeward on the astrin-gent fumes of medicated sunburn lotion, pale tourists arriving with the dampish smell of cloudy country .