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A coarse hessian style of cloth used to make sacks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Garments worn as an act of penance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, countable, figuratively, uncountable, usually
Examples
- After he realised the gravity of his crime he spent some time wearing sackcloth and ashes.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: hairshirt, cilice
Antonyms: none provided
a coarse cloth resembling sacking
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fabric, cloth, material, textile
a garment made of coarse sacking; formerly worn as an indication of remorse
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: garment
From Middle English sakcloth, sekcloth, sekclath, sekklath. By surface analysis, sack + cloth.
Across languages
Translations
39 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Bulgarian:
зебло
(zeblo)
— cloth
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Bulgarian:
кеневир
(kenevir)
— cloth
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Chinese Mandarin:
麻布
(mábù)
— cloth
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Cornish:
yskar
— cloth
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Danish:
sækkelærred
— cloth
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Egyptian:
Aa18-Z1-g-A-D3
(sꜣgꜣ)
— cloth
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Finnish:
säkkikangas
— cloth
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French:
toile à sac
— cloth
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German:
Sackleinen
— cloth
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Ancient Greek:
σάκκος
(sákkos)
— cloth
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Hebrew:
שַׂק
(shaq)
— cloth
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Irish:
sacéadach
— cloth
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Irish:
éadach lín
— cloth
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Irish:
éadach saic
— cloth
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Macedonian:
зе́бло
(zéblo)
— cloth
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Manx:
aanrit-sack
— cloth
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Middle English:
sak
— cloth
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Old English:
hǣre
— cloth
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Plautdietsch:
Sakzeich
— cloth
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Polish:
tkanina workowa
— cloth
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Portuguese:
aniagem
— cloth
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Punjabi:
ਤੱਪੜ
(tappaṛ)
— cloth
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Russian:
мешкови́на
(meškovína)
— cloth
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Russian:
дерю́га
(derjúga)
— cloth
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Scottish Gaelic:
aodach-cainb
— cloth
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Ottoman Turkish:
قیل
(qıl)
— cloth
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Ukrainian:
мішкови́на
(miškovýna)
— cloth
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Welsh:
sachliain
— cloth
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Armenian:
քուրձ
(kʻurj)
— figuratively: garment worn as act of penance
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Old Armenian:
քուրձ
(kʻurj)
— figuratively: garment worn as act of penance
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Bulgarian:
власеница
(vlasenica)
— figuratively: garment worn as act of penance
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Danish:
sæk
— figuratively: garment worn as act of penance
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Finnish:
säkki
— figuratively: garment worn as act of penance
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Hebrew:
שַׂק
(shaq)
— figuratively: garment worn as act of penance
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Macedonian:
власе́ница
(vlasénica)
— figuratively: garment worn as act of penance
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Māori:
taratara
— figuratively: garment worn as act of penance
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Polish:
wór pokutny
— figuratively: garment worn as act of penance
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Russian:
власяни́ца
(vlasjaníca)
— figuratively: garment worn as act of penance
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Spanish:
sambenito
— figuratively: garment worn as act of penance
