sheitel

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Pronunciation

/ˈʃaɪtəl/

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/ˈʃaɪtəl/ · /ˈʃeɪtəl/

Definition of sheitel

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

(Judaism)A wig worn by married Orthodox Jewish women.

“I keep wanting to put her in a sheitel, the wig that every Orthodox Jewish wife is supposed to wear in order to prevent a man not her husband from lusting after her in his heart.”
“Many even have their sheitel professionally styled: according to the New York Times, a Madison Avenue salon that specializes in sheitel grooming charges at least $600 for the service: […]”

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noun

(Judaism)A wig worn by married Orthodox Jewish women.

“I keep wanting to put her in a sheitel, the wig that every Orthodox Jewish wife is supposed to wear in order to prevent a man not her husband from lusting after her in his heart.”
“Many even have their sheitel professionally styled: according to the New York Times, a Madison Avenue salon that specializes in sheitel grooming charges at least $600 for the service: […]”
(Polari)A wig (of any kind).

“Will you take a varder at the cartz on the feely-omi in the naf strides: the one with the bona blue ogles polarying the omi-palone with a vogue on and a cod sheitel.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

From Yiddish שייטל (sheytl), cognate to German Scheitel (“parting”).

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