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Garment made from coarsely woven cloth, worn as a token of mourning or mortification.

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Examples for "sackcloth"
Examples for "sackcloth"
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The proud Lord of Hers was, in spirit, in sackcloth and ashes.
The Truce of God / A Tale of the Eleventh Century
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None clothed in sackcloth might enter the gate that is called Beautiful.
The World's Great Sermons, Volume 08: Talmage to Knox Little
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Trixy told her to-night she'd discarded the sackcloth and kept the ashes.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
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The team wanted drama and impact but she preferred sackcloth and ashes.
The Irish Times
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It was an old man clad in sackcloth, who resembled a hermit.
Three short works / The Dance of Death, the Legend of Saint Juli...
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The breastplate and the cilice of bristles she took and dashed with feeble ferocity on the floor.
The Cloister and the Hearth
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His essential awfulness is denoted not by any cilice mortifying the flesh, but by his grotesque comb-over-baldness.
The Guardian
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For upwards of a month, then, the mild torture of the goat's-hair cilice did the office I required of it.
The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and might...
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Ignoring the slash of pain from his cilice, Silas retrieved his gun and began the long trek up the grassy slope.
The Da Vinci Code
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And now I must doff this bristly cilice; they would prick thy tender skin, perhaps make it bleed, as they have me, I see.
The Cloister and the Hearth
Ús de hairshirt en anglès
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It has been a hairshirt week for Leinster, a time to pause.
The Irish Times
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Or they could don the hairshirt and aim to sharply slow spending.
The Irish Times
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If I was a Flagellant now, I would don hairshirt and up flail.
For the Term of His Natural Life
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She cannot even give us the pleasure of the hairshirt.
Not that it Matters
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Chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne's hairshirt Brexit budget has not appeared for one thing.
The Irish Times
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It was hairshirt stuff - was it the shape of things to come next week?
The Irish Times
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It was a time of deep recession in Ireland and a tough hairshirt budget was in the offing.
The Irish Times
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We are in the hairshirt era.
The Irish Times
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But the hairshirt makes a body itch with the kind of prickling irritation that can drive you mad.
The Irish Times
10
These were hairshirt' years, yet the Government of the day tackled the need for housing in the 1920s with imagination.
The Irish Times
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Again, both leaders were well-prepared but Haughey scored points in attacking the cuts being proposed in a hairshirt Fine Gael budget.
The Irish Times
12
Take the cape and burn it, too, or sew it into a hairshirt and wear it under your fancy ball gowns.
Son of a witch: volume two in the wicked years
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But in what might be called an episode of hairshirt politics, Labor is attacking the Prime Minister for being able to afford expensive suits.
News.com.au
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The gold florin, with the Florentine lily on one side and John the Baptist wearing a hairshirt on the other, became the coin of Europe.
The monster of florence
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There have also been a fair share of austere hairshirt budgets that happened during the recessions of the 1970s, 1980s and the 2010s.
The Irish Times
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In these days of hairshirts and tightened belts who can afford frivolous extras like research or originality?
The Irish Times
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