English

Noun

horsehair shirt ‎(plural horsehair shirts)

1. Alternative of hairshirt.
   • 2008, Eugene N. Zeigler, When Conscience and Power Meet, ISBN 1570037442, page 147:

     I always thought of it as the horsehair shirt of politics: necessary but uncomfortable.

   • 2011, Douglas Boyd, April Queen: Eleanor of Aquitaine, ISBN 0752473042:

     Becket took to wearing a horsehair shirt, constantly irritating the skin beneath the fine clothes he still affected, and followed a strict horarium with midnight prayers, rising at dawn to wash the feet of beggars and distribute food to the hungry.

   • 2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, ISBN 9780340921609, page 442:

     Strap on your horsehair shirt later. I'm the better transverser, and I'm just nastier.