Hair Shirt

  

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Hair Shirt

Definition: Hair Shirt

Hair Shirt

Noun

1. An uncomfortable shirt made of coarse animal hair; worn next to the skin as a penance.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Commercial Usage: Hair Shirt

DomainTitle

Books

  • Hunting A Hair Shirt and Other Spiritual Adventures (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Hair Shirt

Language Translations for "hair shirt"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

korse e ashpër me qime kali. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

власеница (sackcloth). (various references)

   

Czech

  

žínìná košile. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szõring. (various references)

   

Manx

  

lheiney gheayshteenagh (cilice). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

airhay irtshay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

власяница (haircloth, sackcloth). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

komad sukna oko bedara. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tagelskjorta. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

волосяниця (sackcloth). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Hair Shirt

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

pili, pilis, pilo, piloque, pilorum, pilos, pilus. (various references)

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Anagrams: Hair Shirt

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-h-h-i-i-r-r-s-t"

-3 letters: airths, sirrah, thrash.

-4 letters: airth, airts, arris, astir, hairs, harsh, harts, rishi, saith, shirr, shirt, sirra, sitar, stair, stria, tahrs, tarsi, trash.

-5 letters: airs, airt, aits, arts, hahs, hair, hart, hash, hast, hath, hats, hist, hits, iris, rash, rath, rats, rias, sari, sati, shah, shri, sith, star, stir, tahr, tars, thir, this, tsar.

 Words containing the letters "a-h-h-i-i-r-r-s-t"
 

+5 letters: harpsichordist, historiography.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Translations: Modern
4. Translations: Ancient
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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