Purdah is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 85 anagrams from letters in purdah (adhpru).
1790-1800; Hindi, Urdu pardah curtain Persian
purdah, pur′d, n. a curtain screening a chamber of state or the women's apartments: the seclusion itself.
Half-a-dozen of them screamed that two of us were white men who had trespassed within the purdah, and that we should be killed.
A male doctor attending a zenana lady would put his hand between the purdah to feel her pulse.
The friendliest were baffled by her incomprehensible lack of social instinct, the fruit of India's purdah system.
He had not been backward, however, in awakening his grandfather to purdah manœuvres.
"You see the child came regularly to my purdah parties," she explained to Roy, who was impatient no longer, only absorbed.
The purdah rustled, and the speech was cut short by the entry of a little, thin woman with big rings round her eyes.
Anybody would think, to listen to some people, that the purdah flourished in Chelsea.
At the end of the room was a purdah or curtain, and behind it people were talking.
With these words she left Ahmed as he lifted the purdah, having followed him as far as her woman's feet were permitted to go.