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单词 sackcloth
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sackclothn.

Brit. /ˈsakklɒθ/, /ˈsakklɔːθ/, U.S. /ˈsækˌklɔθ/, /ˈsækˌklɑθ/
Forms: Middle English sekk-clathe, sekklath, Middle English sekclath, sekcloth, cekclothe, sak clothe, 1500s sack(e)cloth(e, sacclothe, sack-cloath, 1500s– sackcloth.
Etymology: < sack n.1 + cloth n.
1.
a. A coarse textile fabric (now of flax or hemp) used chiefly in the making of bags or sacks and for the wrapping up of bales, etc.; sacking.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric with specific qualities > [noun] > coarse or rough > for packing or bags
sackcloth1373
packcloth1394
soutage1532
sacking1707
bagging1732
sugar sack1891
1373–4 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 578 In Sekklath empt. in villa et in patria, 26s. 4d.
c1420 J. Lydgate Assembly of Gods 290 Ceres, the goddesse, in a garment Of sak clothe..Embrowderyd with sheues & sykelys bent.
1423 Kingis Quair cix Als like ȝe bene, as..sek-cloth is vnto fyne cremesye.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 64/1 Cek, or cekclothe, or poke, saccus.
1484–5 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 415 Sol. pro 9 uln. de sekclath pro altaribus ecclesie, 2s. 3d.
1548 W. Thomas Ital. Gram. & Dict. (1567) Canauaccio, canuasse or sackeclothe.
1623 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husb. (ed. 3) i. iv. 50 Cloath him temperately, as with a single cloth, of canuase or sacke-cloth.
1896 Daily News 21 Apr. 6/4 The latest novelty in dress materials is sackcloth... It is common hemp sacking,..but let no one imagine for a single moment that it is cheap. The open canvas ground is intended to be lined with the richest..silks and satins, and itself forms a groundwork for elaborate embroideries.
b. As the material of mourning or penitential garb; also (in contrast with ‘purple’ or ‘gold’) as the coarsest possible clothing, indicative of extreme poverty or humility. in sackcloth and ashes (Biblical): clothed in sackcloth and having ashes sprinkled on the head as a sign of lamentation or abject penitence. †Also with a (cf. sack n.1 5).The penitential ‘sackcloth’ of the Bible (Hebrew saq, Greek σάκκος) was a dark-coloured fabric of goats' or camels' hair.
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society > faith > artefacts > lay garments > items of attire > [noun] > penitential garment
hairec825
cilicec950
sackc1000
hauberkc1305
habergeonc1386
sackclotha1400
shirt of hair1527
shriving cloth1534
haircloth1548
sanbenito1568
white sheet1570
penitential robea1625
sack gown1693
samarra1731
hair-shirt1737
repentance-gown1896
the world > life > death > obsequies > formal or ceremonial mourning > [noun] > wearing of mourning garments > mourning garments
clothes, habit, weeds of dole1388
clothing of carea1400
sackclotha1400
mourningc1450
dolec1500
care-weed?1507
sables1603
mournings1634
society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > [noun] > symbols of
ashc950
sackclotha1400
society > faith > worship > sacrament > confession > penance > [noun] > garment of
hairec825
cilicec950
sackc1000
hauberkc1305
habergeonc1386
sackclotha1400
shirt of hair1527
shriving cloth1534
haircloth1548
sanbenito1568
white sheet1570
penitential robea1625
sack gown1693
samarra1731
hair-shirt1737
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric with specific qualities > [noun] > coarse or rough > for clothing > sackcloth
sackc1000
sackclotha1400
the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > [adverb]
sorelyc888
yomerlya1000
yomerea1250
ruthlya1400
mourninglya1425
sorrowinglya1425
lamentably1470
in sackcloth and ashes1526
tragically1567
plaintively1593
lamentinglyc1610
bemoaningly1646
complainingly1816
deploringly1847
sighfully1900
the world > life > death > obsequies > formal or ceremonial mourning > [adjective] > wearing mourning garments
in sackcloth and ashes1526
in mourning1621
sabled1804
the world > life > death > obsequies > formal or ceremonial mourning > [adverb] > wearing mourning garments
in sackcloth and ashes1526
society > faith > artefacts > lay garments > items of attire > [adverb] > wearing penitential garment
in sackcloth and ashes1526
society > faith > worship > sacrament > confession > penance > [adverb] > wearing penitential garment
in sackcloth and ashes1526
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > made from specific material > flax or hemp > sackcloth
shriving cloth1534
sackcloth1553
a1400 St. Alexius 191 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 178 All hir bodi scho made bare & did apon hir a sekk-clathe.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xi. f. xv They had repented longe agon in sack cloth and asshes.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms xxxiv. 13 When they were sick, I put on a sack cloth.
1553 R. Eden in tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India Ded. sig. aaijv He whiche cloteth an ape in purple, & a king in sackecloth.
1575 G. Gascoigne Hundred Flowers in Wks. 51 I was in sack-cloth I, now am I clad in gold, And weare such robes, as I my selfe take plesure to behold.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. iii. sig. C3v And to augment her painefull penaunce more,..shee..Next her wrinkled skin rough sackecloth wore.
1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar i. iv. 128 S. Lewis King of France wore sack-cloth every day unless sicknesse hindred.
1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 47 And being clad in Sackcloth, he was to lie on the Ground, and..implore God's Mercy.
1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. xlviii. 55 While he groaned and prayed in sackcloth and ashes, his brother..smiled at his remorse.
1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Devereux II. iv. v. 188 I should have gone into a convent and worn sackcloth.
a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 356 The low and great, Who in their sack~cloth or their purple, creep Beneath the summit of the viewless steep.
1885 ‘H. Conway’ Family Affair III. ii. 35 He knew that for all that had befallen she was mourning in mental sackcloth and ashes.
c. plural. [See clothes n.] Garments of sackcloth.
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1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. H4 He sits him downe in sack-cloathes, his hands and eyes reared to heauen.
2. A material for ladies' dresses. Cf. sack n.1 6.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric for specific purpose > [noun] > for clothing > for dresses
sackcloth1571
sacking1589
sack1595
pelong1675
Polonese1755
dress1818
1571 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 136 Sackclothe stripte with sylver.
1896 [see sense 1a].

Compounds

C4. attributive and in other combinations, as sackcloth-bag, sackcloth-garb, sackcloth-mourner, sackcloth-prophecy, etc.; sackcloth-bound, sackcloth-clad adjs.
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1679 C. Ness Distinct Disc. Antichrist 127 The sackcloth-prophecy of the witnesses.
1679 C. Ness Distinct Disc. Antichrist 221 A sackcloth-mourner.
1679 C. Ness Distinct Disc. Antichrist 229 Italy it self had several sackcloth-witnesses.
1679 C. Ness Distinct Disc. Antichrist 232 That famous sackcloth-prophet John Wickliffe.
1814 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II (ed. 7) ii. lxxviii. 108 Ere his sackcloth garb Repentance wear.
1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons I. i. iii. 45 It's ill leaping now-a-days in a sackcloth bag.
1843 J. G. Whittier Lays of Home 14 And mate with maniac women, loose-haired and sackcloth-bound.
1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity VI. xiv. viii. 579 The sackcloth-clad, bare-foot Friar.

Derivatives

ˈsackclothed adj. rare clad in sackcloth; also figurative.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing specific material
woolwardc1315
under line (occasionally in line)c1330
fox-furred1592
furred1592
tuftaffeta1598
tissued?16..
satin1603
silk1603
russet1604
tuftaffety1612
plush1615
sericated1623
sheepskinned1628
silken1640
lawny1647
plushed1650
satined1652
harden1654
sackclotheda1656
bearskinned1694
well-furred?1707
furry1717
brocaded1767
flannelled1784
lawned1798
buckskinned1829
corduroyed1832
silked1837
silkened1841
friezy1849
fustianed1849
velveted1850
buffed1863
buckramed1880
craped1880
crapy1891
velveteened1896
mohaired1914
tweeded1921
tweedy1923
leather1961
a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 69 To be joviall when God calls to mourning,..to glitter when he would have us sackcloth'd and squalid, he hates it to the death.
1829 I. Taylor Nat. Hist. Enthusiasm ix. 250 A healthy force of mind utterly incompatible with..the petty solicitudes of sackclothed abstinence.
1922 E. Blunden Shepherd 23 And rising floods gleam silver on the verge Of sackclothed skies and melancholy grounds.
1924 R. Clements Gipsy of Horn ix. 169 Half-bred negroes and Indians, sackclothed and uncivilised.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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