Cloth made of hair, haircloth; esp. a hair shirt worn next the skin by ascetics and penitents; extended later to any kind of coarse or harsh fabric…

Hair-cloth; a rough garment made of hair-cloth, generally worn as a penitential robe. Also attributive.

Sackcloth, esp. as the material of penitential or mourning garments. Also, a piece or a garment of sackcloth. Obsolete.

worn as a garment for penance. Obsolete.

Worn as a rough garment for penance. Obsolete.

As the material of mourning or penitential garb; also (in contrast with ‘purple’ or ‘gold’) as the coarsest possible clothing, indicative of extreme…

a shirt made from haircloth, as worn by penitents or ascetics.

sackcloth worn by penitents.

An article (as a shirt, towel, etc.) made of this fabric.

Under the Spanish Inquisition, a penitential garment of yellow cloth, resembling a scapular in shape, ornamented with a red St. Andrew's cross…

a sheet in which a person performing penance is clad; see sheet, n.1 1c.

a robe worn by a public penitent.

a sackcloth garment worn by an offender when doing public penance.

A kind of cassock, painted with flames, etc., worn on the way to execution by persons condemned by the Inquisition to be burnt.

A shirt made of haircloth, worn by ascetics and penitents. (Cf. haire, n.)

a garment made of coarse fabric required to be worn by a person making a public display of repentance in some Scottish churches.