Usually means: Garment symbolizing repentance and austerity.
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  1. hair shirt: Merriam-Webster
  2. hair shirt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hair shirt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hair shirt: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hair-shirt, hair shirt: Vocabulary.com
  6. hair-shirt, hair shirt: Wordnik
  7. hair shirt: Wiktionary
  8. hair shirt: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. hair shirt: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Hair shirt, hair-shirt, hair shirt: Dictionary.com
  11. Hair shirt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. hair-shirt, hair shirt: Rhymezone
  13. hair-shirt, hair shirt: FreeDictionary.org
  14. hair-shirt, hair shirt: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. hair-shirt, hair shirt: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. hair shirt: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. hair shirt: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Hair shirt)

noun:  Alternative form of hairshirt [A shirt made of haircloth; especially one worn by ascetics or the penitent.]

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