a garment made of coarse sacking; formerly worn as an indication of remorse
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a coarse cloth resembling sacking
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Sackcloth \Sack"cloth`\ (?; 115), n. Linen or cotton cloth such as sacks are made of; coarse cloth; anciently, a cloth or garment worn in mourning, distress, mortification, or penitence.
Gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. --2 Sam. iii. 31.