How to Use chador in a Sentence

chador

noun

• Women wear the head-to-foot black chador favored in Iran.
  — Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2017
• The chador has no fasteners; it is held in place under the neck by hand.
  — Russell Goldman, New York Times, 3 May 2016
• Chador: For centuries, women in Iran have worn these semicircles of fabric draped over the head like a shawl.
  — Russell Goldman, New York Times, 3 May 2016
• Slowly, by the late 1990s, brightly colored headscarves and form-fitting coats replaced the black chador.
  — ELLE, 5 Jan. 2023
• Other garments include the niqab, where a face-covering allows the eyes to be seen; the chador, which leaves the face uncovered; and the hijab, or head scarf.
  — Charlotte Allen, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2018
• Babak performs at an underground dance club where women shed their chadors to groove in slinky dresses.
  — J.r. Jones, Chicago Reader, 14 Feb. 2018
• The terrified little boy, however, clung to his mother, peering at me from behind the folds of her chador.
  — Peter Gwin, WSJ, 19 June 2018
• Fakhrizadeh’s widow appeared unnamed on state television in a black chador, saying his death would spark a thousand others to take up his work.
  — Amir Vahdat and Jon Gambrell, chicagotribune.com, 28 Nov. 2020
• Controversies over the chador and hijab persist in Iran today.
  — Jon Gambrell, chicagotribune.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• Controversies over the chador and hijab persist in Iran today .
  — Fox News, 25 Apr. 2018
• To express their resistance, the Islamists encouraged women to don the chador, a black cloak covering their bodies.
  — ELLE, 5 Jan. 2023
• But while crowds in Tehran looked large with chador-wearing women waving the Islamic Republic's flag, other protests in the country appeared smaller, with only a few dozen people taking part.
  — Jon Gambrell, ajc, 4 Nov. 2022
• This follows this month’s death of 22-year-old Mahsa ‘Zhina’ Amini, arrested in Tehran for not properly wearing the headscarf, which unlike the body-length chador is compulsory for women outside of their home.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2022
• The Associated Press spoke to a variety of people on Tehran’s streets recently, ranging from young and old, women wearing the all-encompassing black chador to those loosely covering their hair.
  — Mehdi Fattahi, The Seattle Times, 19 May 2019
• But while crowds in Tehran looked large with chador-wearing women waving the Islamic Republic’s flag, other commemorations in the country appeared smaller, with only a few dozen people taking part.
  — Jon Gambrell, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2022
• While crowds in Tehran looked large with chador-wearing women waving the Islamic Republic's flag, other commemorations in the country appeared smaller, with only a few dozen people taking part.
  — Arkansas Online, 5 Nov. 2022
• His decisions echo today, particularly his 1936 decree banning women from wearing long, flowing black robes known as chadors.
  — Fox News, 25 Apr. 2018
• Women in full chadors smile and wave at their convoys, and American soldiers even visit the crowded bazaar in unarmored cars, disembarking on foot with only sidearms, according to locals — unusual for any place at risk of an Islamic State attack.
  — Rod Nordland, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
• Interviewing Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran in 1979, Fallaci wore a chador.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
• The Guards’ intelligence department is headed by Mohammad (the good guys are known only by their first names), a stoic polyglot who is aided by his capable and religiously conservative female assistant Amini, dressed in a chador.
  — Ramin Mostaghim, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2019
• Another gathering was attended by several thousand women in chadors.
  — Washington Post, 15 July 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024