Zenana

"The word zenana," replied Mrs. Thurston, "strictly means women's apartment, but as it is generally used by us it means the houses of the high caste gentlemen, where their wives live in great seclusion. ❋ Emma L. Burnett (N/A)

The little jade dog on my shelf stared at me with bulging eyes, reminding me that betrayal from within the zenana was the least of my fears. ❋ Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- (2003)

It was clear that the native tutors had no control whatever over their illustrious pupil, and every creature in and about the zenana was his submissive slave, so that Gerrard became seriously exercised as to the development of his character. ❋ Sydney C. Grier (1900)

There the women are free to work and hold positions of power, while the men are kept sequestered in prisons called mardanas this is a play on words: in Hossain's time, women were relinquished to a part of the house called zenana, and mard is the Urdu word for man. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He was not injured badly, as such things went in the zenana, meaning he would not die of it. ❋ Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- (2003)

But tell me, how you managed to put the men of your country into the zenana. ❋ Peggy (2009)

'It is not likely that they would surrender their free and open air life of their own accord and confine themselves within the four walls of the zenana! ❋ Peggy (2009)

For Satti Khanum, entry into the imperial zenana, being attached to the quarters of the woman who became Empress, had been beneficial. ❋ Indu Sundaresan (2010)

Man Singh, also a vassal to the Mughal Empire, had nonetheless managed to live with the extravagance of a king, with sixteen hundred wives populating his zenana, a veritable swarm of children, so many sons he could not remember all of their names. ❋ Indu Sundaresan (2010)

The women of the zenana knew, of course, as they were wont to, yet not a word had been breathed in his presence or in the corridors or at court. ❋ Indu Sundaresan (2010)

She did not need to ask anymore, of herself or of Najabat, if he would find her desirable and attractive—she knew he would because he had defied all the rules of the zenana to find his way here. ❋ Indu Sundaresan (2010)

He barely knew her—as indeed he had known little about his first two wives, but they were now established in his zenana and did not have omnipotent fathers or powerful brothers who could call for his head to be parted from his neck by sundown and would be obeyed without question. ❋ Indu Sundaresan (2010)

Dara, Shuja, and Aurangzeb had played here earlier in the evening, and Roshan and she had watched from a zenana enclosure on one side of the field. ❋ Indu Sundaresan (2010)

And so Jahanara returned to her place in the imperial zenana and her tasks as though nothing much had happened in the months she had been gone. ❋ Indu Sundaresan (2010)

In Mughal India, she was considered past the age of desirability—there were creatures in the zenana who had been banished to its farthest quarters because of this, no longer presented to her Bapa as choices for a night. ❋ Indu Sundaresan (2010)

He had carved out this time from his sleep, rising before the sun as usual for the early-morning jharoka, and then, instead of returning to the zenana for a few hours of sleep, he had turned to the Diwan-i-khas, where the Peacock Throne would be unveiled to the amirs in the evening. ❋ Indu Sundaresan (2010)

Over the next five months, she had continued her duties in the zenana and at court as always, thinking and planning for the future, and, most surprisingly, the suggestion to visit the dargahs of the Sufi saints had come from Dara by way of Nadira. ❋ Indu Sundaresan (2010)

This was the pleasure the women of the imperial zenana sought so assiduously, risking meetings in gardens with men they did not know, imprisonment if the Emperor heard, or perhaps worse, death by being pinned under a merciless sun for hours. ❋ Indu Sundaresan (2010)

They parted as he gently nudged her toward her apartments in the zenana, leaving him to go to his alone. ❋ Indu Sundaresan (2010)

In response, the eunuch knelt and laid a stubby finger on one tent, a quarter of a mile from the zenana tents. ❋ Indu Sundaresan (2010)

[Ahmed]! There is this [zenana] that's been [buzzing] all night that's been keeping me awake ❋ Shitposter404 (2021)

-His [dick] was pretty [soft] last night. -it's called Zenana! [Not a] dick. ❋ Algerianiqqaboi (2019)

[Ghiles]: I'll beat you with my dad King [nayno] : b hedik [zenana]? Ghiles : wa3wa3wa3 King nayno: euhye Qaryme: hUHhjhhjhujjjj ❋ Synystermettal (2018)