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horsehair shirts

horsehair shirts is the plural of horsehair shirt.

Meaning of horsehair shirt

Noun

horsehair shirt (plural horsehair shirts)

  1. 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
    Synonyms:
    hairshirt

Questions about horsehair shirts

What is horsehair shirts the plural of?
Horsehair shirts is the plural of horsehair shirt.

Words near horsehair shirts in the dictionary

  1. horsefuckers
  2. Horsegate
  3. horsegram
  4. horsehair
  5. horsehair shirt
  6. horsehair shirts
  7. horsehair worm
  8. horsehair worms
  9. horsehaired
  10. horsehairs
  11. horsehairy

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