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sackcloth

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sack·cloth  (skklôth, -klth)
n.
1. Sacking.
2.
a. A rough cloth of camel's hair, goat hair, hemp, cotton, or flax.
b. Garments made of this cloth, worn as a symbol of mourning or penitence.
sackcloth
Noun
1. same as sacking
2. garments made of such cloth, worn formerly to indicate mourning
3. sackcloth and ashes an exaggerated attempt to apologize or compensate for a mistake or wrongdoing
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Noun1.sackclothsackcloth - a garment made of coarse sacking; formerly worn as an indication of remorse
garment - an article of clothing; "garments of the finest silk"
2.sackcloth - a coarse cloth resembling sacking
cloth, fabric, textile, material - artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress"
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And a hermit's got to sleep on the hardest place he can find, and put sackcloth and ashes on his head, and stand out in the rain, and --"
Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark View in context
Some of his low places he found lifted to ideals, some of his ideas had sunk to the valleys, and lay there with the sackcloth and ashes of pumice stone and sulphur on their ruined heads.
Pudd'n'head Wilson by Twain, Mark View in context
This Mary Dyer had entered the mint- master's dwelling, clothed in sackcloth and ashes, and seated herself in our great chair with a sort of dignity and state.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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