خِدْرٌ

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خِدْرٌ A curtain that is extended for a girl in a part of a house, or chamber, or tent; as also أُخْدُورٌ : and hence, any chamber, or house, or tent, or the like, that conceals a person: or a chamber, or house, or tent, in which is a woman; not otherwise: pl. [of mult.] خُدُورٌ and [of pauc.] أَخْدَارٌ, and pl. pl. [i. e. pl. of the latter of these two, or pl. of أُخْدُورٌ,] أَخَادِيرُ.
2 [And hence, A vehicle composed of] pieces of wood set up over the saddle (قَتَب) of the camel, and curtained with a piece of cloth; i. e. a هَوْدَج.
3 [Hence also,] The lurking-place of a lion.
4 See also what next follows.

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