Anglo-Ind. Also chuddah, -er, -ur, chudah. [Hindī chadar a square piece of cloth.] A large sheet commonly worn as a shawl or mantle by women in northern India. Also applied to the cloths spread over Mahommedan tombs. Hence chuddah shawl.
1614. Peyton, in Purchas, Pilgr., I. 530 (Y.). Pentados, chints, and chadars.
1873. Life Sir H. Laurence, I. 199. Over all the chuddur or sheet of white muslin.
1876. A. Arnold, in Contemp. Rev., June, 49. She is covered from head to foot in the loose chudder of indigo, or black-dyed cotton.
1879. E. Arnold, Light of Asia, IV. (1886), 89. The Chuddar fallen to her waist.
1881. Ethel Coxon, A Basil Plant, II. 21. His wife, rising indolently, and gathering her soft chuddah shawl round her.
