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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

sackcloth
    n 1: a garment made of coarse sacking; formerly worn as an
         indication of remorse
    2: a coarse cloth resembling sacking

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
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         Gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. --2
                                                  Sam. iii. 31.
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         Thus with sackcloth I invest my woe.     --Sandys.
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3. Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

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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