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sheytel

sheytel is the alternative form 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

Forms of sheytel

pluralsheytels

Questions about sheytel

What is sheytel the alternative form of?
Sheytel is the alternative form of sheitel.

Words near sheytel in the dictionary

  1. sheygetses
  2. sheyikh
  3. sheyikhs
  4. sheykh
  5. sheykhs
  6. sheytel
  7. sheytels
  8. sheytl
  9. sheytls
  10. sheytân
  11. sheytâns

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