horsehair shirt
horsehair shirt noun: synonym of hairshirt.
Noun
horsehair shirt (plural horsehair shirts)
- Synonym of hairshirt.
- I always thought of it as the horsehair shirt of politics: necessary but uncomfortable.2008, Eugene N. Zeigler, When Conscience and Power Meet, →ISBN, page 147
- Becket took to wearing a horsehair shirt, constantly irritating the skin beneath the fine clothes he still affected, and followed a strict horarium with midnight prayers, rising at dawn to wash the feet of beggars and distribute food to the hungry.2011, Douglas Boyd, April Queen: Eleanor of Aquitaine, →ISBN
- Synonyms:
- hairshirt
Synonyms of horsehair shirt
Forms of horsehair shirt
| plural | horsehair shirts |
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Questions about horsehair shirt
- What does horsehair shirt mean?
- Horsehair shirt means synonym of hairshirt.
- What part of speech is horsehair shirt?
- Horsehair shirt is a noun.
- What is the plural of horsehair shirt?
- The plural of horsehair shirt is horsehair shirts.
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