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hairshirts


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  • hair-shirts
  • haire
  • hairshirt

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Shirts or longer garments made of haircloth, which is a stiff, unsupple fabric. Hairshirts were worn next to the skin, sometimes under other clothing, by ascetics and penitents of several religions. They were also worn by certain ancient troops, to make them tougher.

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