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单词 sheitel
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Definition of sheitel in English:

sheitel

noun ˈʃeɪt(ə)lˈSHātl
  • (among orthodox Ashkenazic Jews) a wig worn by a married woman.

    (正统德系犹太人已婚妇女戴的)假发

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I'm men in shtreimels and women in funky sheitels, I'm English, I'm Jewish, I'm yiddishist, and maybe a little bit Israeli, and loud and quiet, and shy and confident, and sure and not sure.
    • Wry jokes are whispered; remarks are made about the wigs (called sheitels) that the married Orthodox women wear to avoid the ‘immodesty’ of displaying their real hair.
    • Married women wear a sheitel with their hair cropped short.
    • I looked around, and it was 95% people in kippot and sheitels, or overdressed in the way that only frummers can be, and I thought, my my, everyone here is Jewish.
    • I couldn't help noticing some sheitel (religious Jewish women cover their hair) wearing frummers, and when the Baroness stripped down to her basque, I kept thinking ‘look away, don't sully yourselves’.

Origin

Late 19th century: from Yiddish sheytl, from a Germanic base meaning 'crown of the head'.

Definition of sheitel in US English:

sheitel

nounˈSHātl
  • (among orthodox Ashkenazic Jews) a wig worn by a married woman.

    (正统德系犹太人已婚妇女戴的)假发

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I looked around, and it was 95% people in kippot and sheitels, or overdressed in the way that only frummers can be, and I thought, my my, everyone here is Jewish.
    • Married women wear a sheitel with their hair cropped short.
    • I couldn't help noticing some sheitel (religious Jewish women cover their hair) wearing frummers, and when the Baroness stripped down to her basque, I kept thinking ‘look away, don't sully yourselves’.
    • Wry jokes are whispered; remarks are made about the wigs (called sheitels) that the married Orthodox women wear to avoid the ‘immodesty’ of displaying their real hair.
    • I'm men in shtreimels and women in funky sheitels, I'm English, I'm Jewish, I'm yiddishist, and maybe a little bit Israeli, and loud and quiet, and shy and confident, and sure and not sure.

Origin

Late 19th century: from Yiddish sheytl, from a Germanic base meaning ‘crown of the head’.

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