Noun: sackcloth
| Singular | sackcloth |
| Plural | sackcloths |
Sample Sentences
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After he realised the gravity of his crime he spent some time wearing sackcloth and ashes.
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Next you saw her alone, a kneeling penitent at the foot of the crucifix; her long fair hair is unbound, and the sackcloth robe is girded by a cord round her slender shape: her hands are clasped, and tears are flowing fast from the quenched radiance of those shadowy eyes;... [1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 144:]
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No more ashes, no more sackcloth / And an armband made of black cloth / Will someday never more adorn a sleeve [1959, “We Will All Go Together When We Go”, in Tom Lehrer (music), An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer, performed by Tom Lehrer:]
Nouns inflected like sackcloth
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English sakcloth, sekcloth, sekclath, sekklath. By surface analysis, sack + cloth.
Verbs referencing "sackcloth"
German Nouns
Sakko.