Meaning of sheitel | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A wig worn by married Orthodox Jewish women.
   Judaism
2. A wig (of any kind).
   Polari

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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: […]”

“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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