sackcloth
/sak-klawth, -kloth/US // ˈsækˌklɔθ, -ˌklɒθ //UK // (ˈsækˌklɒθ) //
麻布,麻衣,麻袋,麻布的作用
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : sacking.
- : coarse cloth worn as a sign of mourning or penitence.
Examples
Why do we don the sackcloth and ashes of the eternal victims?
I have put off the robe of peace, and have put upon me the sackcloth of supplication, and I will cry to the most High in my days.
Don't delude yourself with the notion that she is sitting down in sackcloth and ashes with her past!
And the men of Ninive believed in God: and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least.
She is known to confess, and is suspected of wearing sackcloth.
But she was expiating it in very sackcloth and ashes, and he would add nothing to the burden on her back.
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