Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Clothed in sackcloth; penitent; humiliated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Clothed in sackcloth.
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- adjective Dressed in
sackcloth .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Green sackclothed wonderer, wandering, gazes at upside down stars through bad beer bottle glasses; all these fences between him and them, those toothache days of fear when not the car wreck or the vodka shots or the jaunt through clean air smiling at his dog's first swim clears his head.
October 2007 2007
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Green sackclothed wonderer, wandering, gazes at upside down stars through bad beer bottle glasses; all these fences between him and them, those toothache days of fear when not the car wreck or the vodka shots or the jaunt through clean air smiling at his dog's first swim clears his head.
So Long, Girl 2007
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She, the mammy far, was put up to it by him, the iniquity that ought to be depraved of his libertins to be silenced, sackclothed and suspended, and placed in irons into some drapyery institution off the antipopees for wordsharping only if he was klanver enough to pass the panel fleischcurers and the fieldpost censor.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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There was a savage rush towards the sackclothed prophets.
The Mark of the Beast Sidney Watson
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