sheitel
noun/ˈʃaɪtəl/ · /ˈʃeɪtəl/
Etymology From Yiddish שייטל (sheytl), cognate to German Scheitel (“parting”).
1
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.2006, Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, Vintage, published 2007, page 196:
- 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: […]2022, Richard Thompson Ford, Dress Codes […] , Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 288:
2
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.1997, James Gardiner, Who's a Pretty Boy Then?, page 137: