sack cloth

[sak-klawth, -kloth]

sack·cloth

[sak-klawth, -kloth]
noun
2.
coarse cloth worn as a sign of mourning or penitence.
3.
in sackcloth and ashes, in a state of repentance or sorrow; contrite: She would be in sackcloth and ashes for days over every trifling error she made.

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Sack cloth is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English; see sack1, cloth

sack·clothed, adjective
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