sackcloth.
A coarse hessian style of cloth used to make sacks.
Meaning & usage
A coarse hessian style of cloth used to make sacks.
Garments worn as an act of penance.
After he realised the gravity of his crime he spent some time wearing sackcloth and ashes.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English sakcloth, sekcloth, sekclath, sekklath. By surface analysis, sack + cloth.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.