sackcloth
IPA: sˈækkɫɔθ
noun
- A coarse hessian style of cloth used to make sacks.
- (usually with “and ashes”, also figurative) Garments worn as an act of penance.
adjective
- Made of sackcloth.
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Examples of "sackcloth" in Sentences
- He lay in sackcloth and went around meekly.
- Anat too wears sackcloth when she finds the fake dead body.
- I don't want an apology, I don't want sackcloth and ashes...
- The harrow caught up what seemed to be some kind of sackcloth.
- He attended Canterbury in sackcloth and ashes as a sign of penance.
- Sackcloth bags are not completely necessary but generally preferred.
- One of the Creator's lamentable mistakes, repented in sackcloth and ashes.
- They will prophesy for twelve hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.
- Sackcloth is the material to make sackings or the cloth derived from sacks.
- On two occasions he went out in public wearing sackcloth as a sign of protest.
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