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What does sackcloth mean?

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Noun
  1. A coarse hessian style of cloth used to make sacks.
  2. (Usually paired with 'ashes'), garments worn as an act of penance. Now often used figuratively.
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At the last minute, he saw the danger and went around talking loudly about the need for republicans to wear sackcloth and ashes.
And they need to wear their sackcloth and ashes, not in a back room, but openly.
And I pictured portly monks in sackcloth habits fighting off marauders with arrows blessed by some medieval bishop.
A strange sackcloth mask with two slit-like eyeholes is pulled over his head.
Even Fischer, who has faced most criticism, has meekly put on sackcloth and ashes and done penitence.
The sackcloth and ashes of 1999 are being cast off and he is not sorry now for campaigning against the Scottish parliament.

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