"sheitel" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2006, Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, Vintage, published 2007, page 196",
          "text": "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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          "ref": "2022, Richard Thompson Ford, Dress Codes […], Simon and Schuster, page 288",
          "text": "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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        "(Judaism) A wig worn by married Orthodox Jewish women."
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          "text": "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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        "(Polari) A wig (of any kind)."
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      "ipa": "/ˈʃeɪtəl/"
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      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "pe'á",
      "sense": "wig worn by married orthodox Jewish women",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "פֵּאָה"
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