hair cloth

  • 1hair|cloth — «HAIR KLTH, KLOTH», noun. a scratchy fabric made of cotton and horsehair or camel s hair. It is used especially to cover furniture and stiffen garments …

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  • 2Hair shirt — An uncomfortable and irritant under shirt worn as a penance, either permanently or during Lent. Thomas Becket wore one, which was found, after his death, to be infested with lice. [< OldEngl. hxre = hair cloth, sackcloth] …

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  • 3Cloth Road — Cover of Cloth Road Volume 1 クロスロオド Genre Action, Adventure Manga …

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  • 4Hair care — is an overall term for parts of hygiene and cosmetology involving the hair on the human head. Hair care will differ according to one s hair type and according to various processes that can be applied to hair. All hair is not the same; indeed,… …

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  • 5cloth — [klôth, kläth] n. pl. cloths [klôthz, kläthz; ] also [ klôths, kläths ] for [ “] kinds of cloth [ ] [ME < OE clath, cloth, hence garment, akin to clithan, to stick, clitha, poultice < IE * gleit (> Ger kleid, dress) < base * glei , to …

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  • 6hair shirt — hair shirts 1) N COUNT A hair shirt is a shirt made of rough uncomfortable cloth which some religious people used to wear to punish themselves. He was sent barefoot wearing only a hair shirt into the wilderness as a penance. 2) N COUNT If you say …

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  • 7hair|line — «HAIR LYN», noun, adjective. –n. 1. a very thin line. 2. the irregular outline where hair growth ends on the head or forehead: »I think you d look better with the ears covered, and then the hair brought forward over the face here, and here, you… …

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  • 8hair shirt — n a shirt made of rough uncomfortable cloth containing hair, worn in the past by some religious people to punish themselves …

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  • 9hair shirt — noun count a shirt made of very rough cloth that some religious people wore in the past to punish themselves for things they had done wrong put on/wear a hair shirt to do something in order to show that you feel very sorry and guilty about… …

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  • 10hair shirt — ► NOUN ▪ a shirt made of stiff cloth woven from horsehair, formerly worn by penitents and ascetics …

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