: a large cloth worn as a combination head covering, veil, and shawl usually by Muslim women especially in Iran
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Exhibited in a former royal palace in January, a fashion show included black chadors alongside floral patterns and bright colors.
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Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Feb. 2024
On one side of the street were women in black chadors and abayas, many carrying A4-sized portraits of the three girls.
—Rania Abouzeid, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2023
Imagine Iranian women who, for 44 years, have been forced to wear a head covering, long coats, and dark-colored pants in the summer heat, and in some places, black chadors.
—Jomana Karadsheh, CNN, 6 Oct. 2023
Some women activists took up the black chador and veiling as emblems of rebellion.
—Azadeh Moaveni, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
My grandmother and all my aunts wear a full hijab chador.
—Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 14 June 2023
In Iran, the hijab – and the all-encompassing black chador worn by some – has long been a political symbol as well.
—Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2023
By the 1979 Islamic Revolution, some of the women who helped overthrow the shah embraced the chador, a cloak that covers the body from head to toe, except for the face.
—Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2023
In Iran, the hijab — and the all-encompassing black chador worn by some — has long been a political symbol as well.
—Nasser Karimi, Anchorage Daily News, 10 May 2023
Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Feb. 2024
On one side of the street were women in black chadors and abayas, many carrying A4-sized portraits of the three girls.
—Rania Abouzeid, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2023
Imagine Iranian women who, for 44 years, have been forced to wear a head covering, long coats, and dark-colored pants in the summer heat, and in some places, black chadors.
—Jomana Karadsheh, CNN, 6 Oct. 2023
Some women activists took up the black chador and veiling as emblems of rebellion.
—Azadeh Moaveni, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
My grandmother and all my aunts wear a full hijab chador.
—Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 14 June 2023
In Iran, the hijab – and the all-encompassing black chador worn by some – has long been a political symbol as well.
—Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2023
By the 1979 Islamic Revolution, some of the women who helped overthrow the shah embraced the chador, a cloak that covers the body from head to toe, except for the face.
—Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2023
In Iran, the hijab — and the all-encompassing black chador worn by some — has long been a political symbol as well.
—Nasser Karimi, Anchorage Daily News, 10 May 2023
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