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.
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Sheitel
//ˈʃaɪtəl//
Synonyms for "sheitel"
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Translations
3 translations across 3 languages.
Hebrew
1 entries- פֵּאָה noun (wig worn by married orthodox Jewish women)
Polish
1 entries- szajtł noun (wig worn by married orthodox Jewish women)
Yiddish
1 entries- שייטל noun (wig worn by married orthodox Jewish women)
Sample sentences
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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: […]
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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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