| 释义 |
Definition of sheitel in English: sheitelnoun 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’.
OriginLate 19th century: from Yiddish sheytl, from a Germanic base meaning 'crown of the head'. Definition of sheitel in US English: sheitelnounˈSHātl (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.
OriginLate 19th century: from Yiddish sheytl, from a Germanic base meaning ‘crown of the head’. |