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Hair shirt   /hɛr ʃərt/   Listen
Hair shirt

noun
1.
An uncomfortable shirt made of coarse animal hair; worn next to the skin as a penance.





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"Hair shirt" Quotes from Famous Books



... the sermon unto this day, and as often as he finds himself growing hard or supercilious, reads it from beginning to end. It is his hair shirt, to be worn from time to time next his soul for the wrongness in it and the mischief it did. He cannot understand how he could have said such things on a Sacrament morning and in the presence of the Rabbi, but indeed ...
— Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers • Ian Maclaren
... thought lovely by every one, and was looked upon as a good exchange for the hair shirt and ...
— Pepita Ximenez • Juan Valera
... crackle, the swingle, the hetchel, for Father grew flax which Mother spun into thread and wove into cloth for our shirts and summer trousers, and for towels and sheets. Wearing those shirts, when new, made a boy's skin pretty red. I dare say they were quite equal to a hair shirt to do penance in; and wiping on a new home-made linen towel suggested wiping on a brier bush. Dear me! how long it has been since I have seen any tow, or heard a loom or a spinning-wheel, or seen a boy breaking in his new flax-made shirt! No one sees ...
— Our Friend John Burroughs • Clara Barrus


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