Sackcloth

What I found in Yule, Hobson-Jobson, p 861 excuse loss of diacriticals: "Sackcloth", often used in the masochistic sense of "hair shirt", apparently traces back to the Persian "Sakkalat, saklatun", which meant a kind of woollen broadcloth.

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Sackcloth and Ashes 2008

“Sackcloth I called it and ashes of roses, for I mourn the loss of my Nan, and am not comforted.”

Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010

Sackcloth was most often made of coarse, black goat's hair.

Archive 2007-07-01 2007

Sackcloth and ashes would be more appropriate, Flandry mourned.

The Rebel Worlds Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1972

"Sackcloth and ashes were merely outward signs of mourning for nations in ages past," he told her.

At the Little Brown House Ruth Alberta Brown

Sackcloth was a coarse cloth, like canvass, used for the dress of the poor, and for the more common articles of domestic economy.

Barnes New Testament Notes 1949

Mr. Harvey has been a journalist for twenty-three years, and has a number of books also to his credit, chief of which is perhaps "Sackcloth for Banner".

How Can We Build A Nation? 1940

He named the kittens Sackcloth and Ashes -- Sackcloth being a black-and-white kit, and Ashes a joint name owned by the two others, who were gray and exactly alike.

The Boys' Life of Mark Twain Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937 1916

Sackcloth is the outward and visible sign of sin, guilt, and misery.

The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little Grenville Kleiser 1910