sackcloth
Noun
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Noun
sackcloth
- A coarse hessian style of cloth used to make sacks.
- (Usually paired with 'ashes'), garments worn as an act of penance. Now often used figuratively.
- After he realised the gravity of his crime he spent some time wearing sackcloth and ashes.
- French: toile à sac
- German: Sackleinen
- Portuguese: aniagem
- Russian: мешкови́на
- Russian: власяни́ца
- Spanish: sambenito
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