boorka

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A form of burqa — An enveloping Central Asian garment which covers the whole body, incorporating a netted screen to cover the eyes, chiefly worn by women in fundamentalist denominations of Islam to observe sartorial hijab (the practice of wearing concealing clothing in front of adult men after the age of puberty).

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Meanings

nounboorka (plural boorkas)

plural boorkas

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of burqa.

    So he went, that very night at eleven, into Amir Nath's Gully, clad in a boorka, which cloaks a man as well as a woman.

    1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Beyond the Pale”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio, published 2005, page 117

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Chicago

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