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Zenana  n.  The part of a dwelling appropriated to women. (India)






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"Zenana" Quotes from Famous Books



... Sanchia; but the old lady retorted, "Nothing of the kind. She's got the experience of all Nature behind her, from the poultry-yard to the House of Lords. You'll find that the Ten Commandments are rigidly enforced among the cocks and hens. If a member of the zenana breaks bounds there, she rues it. How else do you suppose this world is to be peopled? Read the history of marriage, my dear. You'll find that the more primitive your man the more complicated his marriage ...
— Rest Harrow - A Comedy of Resolution • Maurice Hewlett

... fairly early start, getting off about six, and, having skirted the town and passed the neat little Zenana Mission Hospital, we had a pretty but uneventful march of some six miles to Bawan, where, under a big chenar, we halted for the greater part of ...
— A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil • T. R. Swinburne



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