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a hair shirt if someone wears a hair shirt, they choose to make their life unpleasant by not having or experiencing anything that gives them pleasure. I don't think you have to put on a hair shirt in order to be a socialist. |
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Penitents were required to crop their hair, wear hair shirts (goat hair, not their own), practice celibacy, and prostrate themselves before the bishop, who would literally walk over their backs on his way into the church for Mass. So we donned our hair shirts and, as the trees rustled mysteriously in the night air, feasted, richly, on our reward. |
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