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Adjective: hair-shirt
  1. Self-sacrificing or austere
    - hair-shirted
Noun: hair shirt
  1. An uncomfortable shirt made of coarse animal hair; worn next to the skin as a penance

Derived forms: hair shirts

Type of: shirt

Encyclopedia: Hair-shirt

Hair shirt

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