burqa

Definiciones

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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“He fished a sky blue burqa from the bag. The yards of pleated cloth spilled over his knees when he lifted it.”

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