Ulysses vocabulary

The fact that this also entailed pain and suffering was an extra-special bonus, given that I was generally feeling guilty and repentant, and so I liked the medieval hairshirt element involved and pushing myself to the point of cracking.

J. Maarten Troost. Headhunters on My Doorstep, p.61 (2013)

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More’s earnest character caused him while studying law to aim at the subduing of the flesh, by wearing a hair shirt, taking a log for a pillow, and whipping himself on Fridays.

Sir Thomas More. Utopia

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the disgust and pity that he felt for himself in the emptiness of the saturnalia, he armed himself with an ecclesiastical cat-o'nine-tails that he kept in the bottom of his trunk along with a hair-shirt and other instruments of moritification and penance,

Gabriel García Márquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude, p.401 (1970)

Johnny Carson: She's wearing a pair of socks.[...]

Joanna Cassidy: Whenever I dress up I always sort of wear something to keep me down, [...] sort of keep my attitude down because the more flamboyant I dress the more flamboyant I become.

Orson Bean: They used to call that a hairshirt.

Johnny: That's right.

Orson: In the old days you know monks and people who were guilt-ridden would wear a hairshirt.

Johnny: It was self-inflicting.

Orson: It would hurt all the time. So if they ever got too big for their robes or whatever they get too big for.