SACKCLOTH meaning: Rough fabric used for mourning

We found 29 dictionaries that define the word sackcloth:

General (25 matching dictionaries)

sackcloth: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sackcloth: Merriam-Webster
sackcloth: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
sackcloth: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
sackcloth: Collins English Dictionary
sackcloth: Vocabulary.com
Sackcloth, sackcloth: Wordnik
sackcloth: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
sackcloth: Wiktionary
sackcloth: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
sackcloth: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
sackcloth: Infoplease Dictionary
Sackcloth, sackcloth: Dictionary.com
sackcloth: Online Etymology Dictionary
Sackcloth: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Sackcloth: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
sackcloth: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
sackcloth: Rhymezone
Sackcloth: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
sackcloth: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
sackcloth: FreeDictionary.org
sackcloth: Mnemonic Dictionary
sackcloth: TheFreeDictionary.com

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sackcloth: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

sackcloth: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)

Sackcloth: Easton Bible
Sackcloth: Smith's Bible Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun: A coarse hessian style of cloth used to make sacks.
▸ noun: (usually with “and ashes”, also figurative) Garments worn as an act of penance.

Phrases:

sackcloth and ashes, wear sackcloth and ashes, more...

Adjectives:

coarse, rough, white, wear, black, brown, old, penitential, gray, dirty, heavy

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