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Synonyms for hair shirt


Grammar : Noun



Définition of hair shirt

  • noun personal punishment
Example sentences :
  • Then their making me shall be my hair shirt, and I shall be fitted just as well.
  • Extract from : « The Vicar of Bullhampton » by Anthony Trollope
  • You might wear a hair shirt,” she suggested; “they are 122 splendid for the soul.
  • Extract from : « The Bright Shawl » by Joseph Hergesheimer
  • His linen, thick with darns, rubbed his skin like a hair shirt.
  • Extract from : « Ursula » by Honore de Balzac
  • However, every profession has its hair shirt and its Chinese puzzles.
  • Extract from : « Scenes from a Courtesan's Life » by Honore de Balzac
  • He wore no hair shirt; I doubt if he knew the taste of the Discipline.
  • Extract from : « The Cardinal's Snuff-Box » by Henry Harland
  • He wore a hair shirt, and an iron chain around his loins, which he never laid aside, even in sleep.
  • Extract from : « A Short History of Monks and Monasteries » by Alfred Wesley Wishart
  • But -Beckett had dressed himself in a hair shirt and flogged himself with an iron scourge.
  • Extract from : « The Eighteen Christian Centuries » by James White
  • Francis stripped off all his clothing but his hair shirt and the Bishop covered him with an old cloak.
  • Extract from : « The Rise of the Mediaeval Church » by Alexander Clarence Flick
  • As a young man he wore a hair shirt and an iron chain next the skin.
  • Extract from : « Religion & Sex » by Chapman Cohen
  • England, apparently with a sigh of relief, lays aside her hair shirt, and proves that she has been wearing a silk vest under it.
  • Extract from : « English Costume » by Dion Clayton Calthrop

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