sheitel/ˈʃaɪtəl/EtymologyFrom Yiddish שייטל (sheytl), cognate to German Scheitel (“parting”).nounA 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.”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.”