sheitel
English
Etymology
From Yiddish שייטל (sheytl), cognate to German Scheitel (“parting”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃaɪtəl/, /ˈʃeɪtəl/
Noun
sheitel (plural sheitels)
- A wig worn by married orthodox Jewish women.
- 2006, Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, Vintage 2007, p. 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
- 2006, Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, Vintage 2007, p. 196:
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