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| san·be·ni·to [ sànbə ntō ] (plural san·be·ni·tos) |
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sackcloth garment: a sackcloth garment worn by those declared heretics by the Spanish Inquisition. Penitent heretics wore a yellow one with a red cross on it and impenitent heretics wore a black one decorated with flames and devils.
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| [Mid-16th century. < Spanish sambenito, alteration of San Benito "St. Benedict," because it resembles the scapular of a Benedictine monk] |
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