sheitel

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1. JudaismA 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

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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: […]

   2022, Richard Thompson Ford, Dress Codes […] , Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 288

2. PolariA 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