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• n  a garment made of coarse sacking; formerly worn as an indication of remorse
• n  a coarse cloth resembling sacking

• What's crucial is that the voice hasn't changed; instead of Morissette's sandpaper, Colvin has a silky sound that she wears like sackcloth to suit her pretty dirges.
• You don't have to go around in a sackcloth and ashes.
• Never mind: It is time in the desert of obscurity, sackcloth, mere tourist raiment, monkish hirsutism.

News & Articles

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• Stand your ground poem
  I am submitting this poem in the hopes to foster civil discussion regarding the stand your ground law: Stand your ground? Stand your ground? But the ground where you stand is holy, see you not the burning bush, remove your shoes, set aside the warm, familiar robe of fear, that metaphoric silk prison which holds you so near, arraign yourself, with sackcloth and ashes, mourn for the one who ...
  Feb. 19, 2014 - The Daily Tar Heel

Quotes

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• Vladimir Putin in Arab News
  Of course we expected more from our team, but that's not cause to throw up our hands, wear a sackcloth and ashes or beat ourselves with chains,Putin said at the opening of a judo center in the Siberian city of Tyumen.
• Trevor Manuel in Inquirer.net
  I think there are some people who believed that they would find bankers dressed in sackcloth and ashes, full of contrition,South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel told AFP. "Life doesn't work like that."
• Ian Paisley in Times Online
  A deal on decommissioning seemed close, but then Ian Paisley demanded photographs of the guns being destroyed and a "sackcloth and ashes admission of guilt" by the IRA.