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
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
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