:a custom among Muslims and some Hindus in which women stay separate from men or keep their faces and bodies covered when they are near men深闺制度（伊斯兰教徒和一些印度教徒信奉的不让女性接近男性或被男性看见其外貌的习俗）
Most of the women keep purdah. [=live according to the rules of purdah]大多数女性都身居深闺。