Synonyms for hair shirt
| Grammar : Noun |
Définition of hair shirt
- noun personal punishment
- 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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