Definition of Zenana:

part of speech: noun

The apartments in Eastern houses set apart for the use of the women in a family.

Usage examples:

• Do you admit strangers to the privacy of your zenana Louis Tracy in "The Great Mogul".

• It would take a clan of relations and a Zenana of wives to maintain in that state to which he deemed himself entitled- Jasper himself! Edward Bulwer-Lytton in "What Will He Do With It, Book 7.".

• We made a fairly early start, getting off about six, and, having skirted the town and passed the neat little Zenana Mission Hospital, we had a pretty but uneventful march of some six miles to Bawan, where, under a big chenar, we halted for the greater part of the day. T. R. Swinburne in "A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil".

• Their women act as maids to high- caste Hindu ladies, and as they are always about the zenana are liable to lose their virtue. R. V. Russell in "The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II".