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- Middle English · inherited fromsakcloth
- English todaysackcloth
From Middle English sakcloth, sekcloth, sekclath, sekklath. By surface analysis, sack + cloth.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
sackcloth
Today it means: A coarse hessian style of cloth used to make sacks. Full definition →
Middle English sakcloth