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Definition of hair shirt noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

hair shirt

noun
 
/ˌheə ˈʃɜːt/
 
/ˌher ˈʃɜːrt/
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  1. a shirt made of rough cloth containing hair, worn in the past by people who wished to punish themselves for religious reasons
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