Definition of "hairshirts" [hairshirts]

• Plural form of hairshirt. (noun)

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• "At the same time, it also contains the greatest number of examples of extreme religious discipline in the form of hairshirts, flagellation, and other types of bodily mortifications."
• "Do these people wear hairshirts and self flagellate?"
• ""Do these people wear hairshirts and self flagellate?""