SACKCLOTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sackcloth mean? 

• SACKCLOTH (noun)
  The noun SACKCLOTH has 2 senses:

1. a garment made of coarse sacking; formerly worn as an indication of remorse

2. a coarse cloth resembling sacking

  Familiarity information: SACKCLOTH used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SACKCLOTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A garment made of coarse sacking; formerly worn as an indication of remorse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("sackcloth" is a kind of...):

garment (an article of clothing)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A coarse cloth resembling sacking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("sackcloth" is a kind of...):

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)

 Context examples 

He attended on us, as I may say, in sackcloth and ashes.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She made me seven shirts, and some other linen, of as fine cloth as could be got, which indeed was coarser than sackcloth; and these she constantly washed for me with her own hands.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)