sackcloth
pronunciation
How to pronounce sackcloth in British English:
UK [ˈsækklɒθ]
How to pronounce sackcloth in American English:
US [ˈsækklɔθ]
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- Noun:
- a garment made of coarse sacking; formerly worn as an indication of remorse
- a coarse cloth resembling sacking
Word Origin
- sackcloth (n.)
- penitential or grieving garb, late 13c., literally "cloth of which sacks are made," from sack (n.1) + cloth. In the Biblical sense it was of goats' or camels' hair, the coarsest possible clothing.
Example
- 1. Strip yourselves and be bare , and gird your loins with sackcloth .
- 2. I will clothe the heavens with darkness , and will make sackcloth their covering .
- 3. I broke a vase and my wife made me wear sackcloth and ashes for a week !
- 4. For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in tyre and sidon , they would have repented long ago , sitting in sackcloth and ashes .
- 5. When I made sackcloth my clothing , I became a byword unto them .