Meanings of cilice in English

The breastplate and the cilice of bristles she took and dashed with feeble ferocity on the floor.

His essential awfulness is denoted not by any cilice mortifying the flesh, but by his grotesque comb-over-baldness.

For upwards of a month, then, the mild torture of the goat's-hair cilice did the office I required of it.

Ignoring the slash of pain from his cilice, Silas retrieved his gun and began the long trek up the grassy slope.

And now I must doff this bristly cilice; they would prick thy tender skin, perhaps make it bleed, as they have me, I see.

That other sinful longing, she entirely effaced at last, thereby achieving something that had been impossible to prayers and fasting, to scourge and cilice.