"horsehair shirt" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: horsehair shirts [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} horsehair shirt (plural horsehair shirts)
  1. Synonym of hairshirt Categories (topical): Clothing Synonyms: hairshirt [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-horsehair_shirt-en-noun-BCqmgnjm Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2008, Eugene N. Zeigler, When Conscience and Power Meet, →ISBN, page 147:",
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          "ref": "2011, Douglas Boyd, April Queen: Eleanor of Aquitaine, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Becket took to wearing a horsehair shirt, constantly irritating the skin beneath the fine clothes he still affected, and followed a strict horarium with midnight prayers, rising at dawn to wash the feet of beggars and distribute food to the hungry.",
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          "ref": "2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, →ISBN, page 442:",
          "text": "Strap on your horsehair shirt later. I'm the better transverser, and I'm just nastier.",
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