Sheitel

Pronunciation

• IPA: en, /ˈʃaɪtÉ™l/, /ˈʃeɪtÉ™l/

Origin

From , cognate to .

Full definition of sheitel

Noun

1. A wig worn by married orthodox Jewish women.
• #* 2006, Kalooki Nights, 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.
2. (Polari) A wig (of any kind).
• 1997, Who's a Pretty Boy Then?, 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.

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