Translation for "sack cloth" to spanish

Sack cloth

noun

• arpillera
• sayal

Translation examples

arpillera noun

She had swapped traitor’s sack-cloth for the travelling clothes of a lady of means, and looked extremely well in them.
Había cambiado la indumentaria de arpillera propia de los traidores por el vestuario de viaje de una dama adinerada.

sayal noun

I am persuaded that many excellent persons, if they were confronted with the alternatives of reading "Paradise Lost" and going round Trafalgar Square at noonday on their knees in sack-cloth, would choose the ordeal of public ridicule.
Estoy seguro de que muchas personas de mérito, puestas a escoger entre leer El Paraíso perdido[31] o ir a Trafalgar Square al mediodía con sayal de penitente y dar la vuelta a la plaza de rodillas, antes se inclinarían por el bochorno público;