- hair|cloth
- hair|cloth «HAIR KLTH, -KLOTH», noun.a scratchy fabric made of cotton and horsehair or camel's hair. It is used especially to cover furniture and stiffen garments.
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hair shirt — hair shirts 1) N COUNT A hair shirt is a shirt made of rough uncomfortable cloth which some religious people used to wear to punish themselves. He was sent barefoot wearing only a hair shirt into the wilderness as a penance. 2) N COUNT If you say … English dictionary
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hair shirt — n a shirt made of rough uncomfortable cloth containing hair, worn in the past by some religious people to punish themselves … Dictionary of contemporary English
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hair shirt — noun an uncomfortable shirt made of coarse animal hair; worn next to the skin as a penance • Hypernyms: ↑shirt * * * noun 1. : a shirt made of coarse rough animal hair worn next to the skin as a penance led him … to give himself to fasting, a… … Useful english dictionary
