Usage examples for Zenana:

• 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! "What Will He Do With It, Book 7." – Edward Bulwer-Lytton

• 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. "A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil" – T. R. Swinburne

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

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