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Definition of Haircloths
1. haircloth [n] - See also: haircloth
Lexicographical Neighbors of Haircloths
Literary usage of Haircloths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Domestic Annals of Scotland: From the Reformation to the Revolution by Robert Chambers (1874)
"The Council freed Peter and his associate from everything but the charge of taking
away the haircloths, which they left to be dealt with by the ordinary ..."
2. Extracts from the Account Rolls of the Abbey of Durham, from the Original by Durham Cathedral, Joseph Thomas Fowler (1901)
"634, 654*, 652 ; for altar, 264, 274 ; for kiln, 160, 528, 563, 576, 583, 586,
587, 594, 596, 601, 612, 629 ; for sieves, 7. haircloths and cords, 504. ..."
3. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1880)
"... have a whip for a fan, and haircloths next to their skins, and instead of
wrought smocks, have their cheeks stigmatized with a hot iron ; I say, ..."
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