Use "purdah" in a sentence

1. My father would say to her, ‘Pekai, purdah is not only in the veil, purdah is in the heart

2. When we were eleven and twelve, we did them together, but as we turned thirteen or fourteen my friends’ brothers and fathers didn’t allow them because they had entered puberty and should observe purdah and also they were afraid

3. My mother used to tell me to hide my face when I spoke to the media because at my age I should be in purdah and she was afraid for my safety

4. Women had been kept in purdah, schools and bridges had been blown up, businesses had closed

5. In order to protect women’s purdah, men in families hosting the refugees even slept away from their own homes

6. We saw women in the streets without purdah, their heads completely uncovered

7. In truth, lots of people in Pashtun areas live in walled compounds because of purdah and privacy, so the house wasn’t really unusual