hair shirt

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İngilizce - Türkçe
ceza gömleği
at kılı gömlek
saç gömlek
hairshirt
kıl gömlek
İngilizce - İngilizce
If you say that someone is wearing a hair shirt, you mean that they are trying to punish themselves to show they are sorry for something they have done. No one is asking you to put on a hair shirt and give up all your luxuries. A coarse haircloth garment worn next to the skin by religious ascetics as penance. a shirt made of rough uncomfortable cloth containing hair, worn in the past by some religious people to punish themselves
A hair shirt is a shirt made of rough uncomfortable cloth which some religious people used to wear to punish themselves
an uncomfortable shirt made of coarse animal hair; worn next to the skin as a penance
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plural form of hair shirt
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Advocating or adopting a relatively ascetic lifestyle, especially for environmentalist reasons
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A shirt made of haircloth; a cilice; especially one worn by ascetics or the penitent
a hair shirt
cilice
hair-shirt
self-sacrificing or austere
hairshirt
A shirt made of haircloth; especially one worn by ascetics or the penitent
hairshirt
{i} cilice, type of haircloth undergarment; kind of haircloth garment worn by monks in the past
hair shirt