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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
Thus with sackcloth I invest my woe. --Sandys.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
sackcloth
n 1: a garment made of coarse sacking; formerly worn as an
indication of remorse
2: a coarse cloth resembling sacking
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Sackcloth
cloth made of black goats' hair, coarse, rough, and thick, used
for sacks, and also worn by mourners (Gen. 37:34; 42:25; 2 Sam.
3:31; Esther 4:1, 2; Ps 30:11, etc.), and as a sign of
repentance (Matt. 11:21). It was put upon animals by the people
of Nineveh (Jonah 3:8).
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