a hair shirt

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cilice
A shirt
sark
hair shirt
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
hair shirt
A hair shirt is a shirt made of rough uncomfortable cloth which some religious people used to wear to punish themselves
hair shirt
an uncomfortable shirt made of coarse animal hair; worn next to the skin as a penance
a hair shirt
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