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Hair-shirt

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Adjective

1. hair-shirt, hair-shirted

self-sacrificing or austere

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Hair-shirt

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noun
1. 
a shirt made of haircloth worn next to the skin as a penance
2. 
a secret trouble or affliction

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Hair-shirt

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a shirt of haircloth, worn over the skin as a penance

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