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sheitels

sheitels is the plural of sheitel.

Meaning of sheitel

Noun

sheitel (plural sheitels)

  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
  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

Questions about sheitels

What is sheitels the plural of?
Sheitels is the plural of sheitel.

Words near sheitels in the dictionary

  1. sheisty
  2. sheit
  3. sheitan
  4. sheitans
  5. sheitel
  6. sheitels
  7. sheitl
  8. sheitls
  9. Shek
  10. Shek Ngau Chau
  11. Shek O

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