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hair-shirted


  • a  self-sacrificing or austere
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  • George Monbiot in guardian.co.uk
    That's a typical Burchill broadside, by the way, and Monbiot called it a "lazy and ridiculous stereotype ...... The idea that we are all po-faced, hair-shirted posh people is ridiculous."

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