sheitel

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A woman wearing a sheitel

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃaɪtəl/, /ˈʃeɪtəl/

Noun

sheitel (plural sheitels)

  1. (Judaism) A wig worn by married Orthodox Jewish women.
    Coordinate terms: shpitzel, tichel
    • 2006, Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, Vintage, published 2007, page 196:
      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.
    • 2022, Richard Thompson Ford, Dress Codes , Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 288:
      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: []
  2. (Polari) A wig (of any kind).
    • 1997, James Gardiner, Who's a Pretty Boy Then?, page 137:
      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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