horsehair shirt
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.14 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I always thought of it as the horsehair shirt of politics: necessary but uncomfortable."
- "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."
- "Strap on your horsehair shirt later. I'm the better transverser, and I'm just nastier."