hair shirt

Englisch - Türkisch

Definition von hair shirt im Englisch Türkisch wörterbuch: ceza gömleği; at kılı gömlek; saç gömlek
hairshirt: kıl gömlek

Englisch - Englisch

Definition von hair shirt im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: 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
hair shirts: plural form of hair shirt
hairshirt: Advocating or adopting a relatively ascetic lifestyle, especially for environmentalist reasons
hairshirt: 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