sheitel

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sheitel

/ˈʃaɪtəl/
/ˈʃeɪtəl/

Rhymes with -aɪtəl, -eɪtəl

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

noun sheitels · shaytel · sheitl · sheytel · shaytl · sheytl

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.
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.

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noun wig worn by married orthodox Jewish women

עברית	פֵּאָה pe'á

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@misc{sheitel_2026,
  title = {sheitel},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sheitel},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}