Crossword-Solution: SACKCLOTH
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sackcloth | n. | Linen or cotton cloth such as sacks are made of; coarse cloth; anciently, a cloth or garment worn in mourning, distress, mortification, or penitence. |
We have 14 clues for the answer “SACKCLOTH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Garment of rue | 1 answer |
| Penitent's garment | 1 answer |
| coarse fabric used for sacks, formerly worn as a penance | 1 answer |
| formerly worn as an indication of remorse | 1 answer |
| Goat's-hair fabric | 2 answers |
| Symbol of remorse | 2 answers |
| CILICE | 2 answers |
| Symbol of penitence | 3 answers |
| Hair-shirt | 3 answers |
| JUTE-made fabric | 6 answers |
| A GARMENT MADE OF COARSE SACKING | 11 answers |
| A COARSE CLOTH RESEMBLING SACKING | 11 answers |
| be penitent | 20 answers |
| Jute | 21 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SACKCLOTH (5)
Can’t my hair be brushed down a little flatter? I dread going—yet I dread the risk of wounding him by staying away.” “Anyhow, ma’am, you can’t well be dressed plainer than you are, unless you go in sackcloth at once.
And a hermit’s got to sleep on the hardest place he can find, and put sackcloth and ashes on his head, and stand out in the rain, and—” “What does he put sackcloth and ashes on his head for?” inquired Huck.
The anchorite, not caring again to expose his door to a similar shock, now called out aloud, “Patience, patience—spare thy strength, good traveller, and I will presently undo the door, though, it may be, my doing so will be little to thy pleasure.” The door accordingly was opened; and the hermit, a large, strong-built man, in his sackcloth gown and hood, girt with a rope of rushes, stood before the knight.
Will you forgive me this once if I promise never to fail again? Yours in sackcloth, Judy Dear Daddy-Long-Legs, This is an extra letter in the middle of the month because I'm rather lonely tonight.
Sore grudging, I arrayed myself in a suit of some country fabric, as delicate as sackcloth and about as becoming as a shroud; and, on coming forth, found the dragon had prepared for me a hearty breakfast.
Quotes with SACKCLOTH (3)
Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become a study for archaeologists... but it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio.
Art — the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.
Ever since people first existed, they have been doing all the things we label "codependent." They have worried themselves sick about other people. They have tried to help in ways that didn't help. They have said yes when they meant no. They have tried to make other people see things their way. They have bent over backwards avoiding hurting people's feelings and, in so doing, have hurt themselves. They have been afraid to trust their feelings. They have believed lies and then …
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Appears in: Crossroads, Newsday, USA TODAY.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1998–2009).