Definitions for hair shirt
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
hair′ shirt′(n.)
a garment of coarse haircloth, worn next to the skin as a penance.
Category: Religion
Origin of hair shirt:
1350–1400
Princeton's WordNet
hair shirt(adj)
an uncomfortable shirt made of coarse animal hair; worn next to the skin as a penance
hair-shirt, hair-shirted(adj)
self-sacrificing or austere
Wiktionary
hair shirt(Noun)
Alternative of hairshirt.
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