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hair shirt

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hair shirt
n.
A coarse haircloth garment worn next to the skin by religious ascetics as penance.
hair shirt
Noun
a shirt made of horsehair cloth worn against the skin as a penance
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Noun1.hair shirt - an uncomfortable shirt made of coarse animal hair; worn next to the skin as a penance
shirt - a garment worn on the upper half of the body


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In her little bit of a kitchen she did her own cooking; she wore a hair shirt next the skin, and castigated herself with whips--these aids to grace are exhibited there yet.
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
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