dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/niq_MW.json
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{
"niqab":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a veil for covering the hair and face except for the eyes that is worn by some Muslim women":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In 2017, Gilda became the attempted punchline of an alt-right insult, when a Twitter user shared a photo of her in a subway car wearing a bouffant scarlet wig and seated next to a woman in a black niqab . \u2014 Mandy Mclaren, The Courier-Journal , 8 June 2022",
"Meaning, while French citizens were required to cover their faces by law, French Muslim women citizens covering their faces with the niqab continued to face the prospect of being fined and arrested by police. \u2014 Shaista Aziz, CNN , 5 Feb. 2022",
"Women caught wearing a niqab in public space face a 150 euro fine and being arrested by the police. \u2014 Shaista Aziz, CNN , 5 Feb. 2022",
"An Indonesian man with the coronavirus has boarded a domestic flight disguised as his wife, wearing a niqab covering his face and carrying fake IDs and a negative PCR test result. \u2014 Randi Basri, ajc , 22 July 2021",
"Maryam is conservative culturally (her niqab is frequently on) but openly ambitious about her career. \u2014 Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times , 12 May 2021",
"One wore a niqab , a full-face veil worn by many Muslim women. \u2014 Alaa Elassar, CNN , 22 Aug. 2020",
"After covering their faces for so long and being the subject of discrimination for doing so, Muslim women have highlighted a double standard that women who wear face coverings, known as niqab , now see. \u2014 Meredith Spelbring, Detroit Free Press , 15 May 2020",
"And Algeria prohibited women from wearing the niqab at work in 2018. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 July 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1936, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Arabic niq\u0101b":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"ni-\u02c8k\u00e4b"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-134822",
"type":[
"noun"
]
}
}