Talk:hairement

@SemperBlotto I don't get it, why "penitentially"? --Per utramque cavernam (talk) 18:00, 16 December 2017 (UTC)

• Hair shirts were worn by penitents. There is no English adverb derived directly from "hair shirt". SemperBlotto (talk) 22:15, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
  • Ok, I see but actually it's wrong anyway: hairement is a noun (cf. Littré, "s. m." = "substantif masculin", plus the fact that it's "tondre en hairement", not "**tondre hairement"). --Per utramque cavernam (talk) 22:30, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
  • @SemperBlotto --Per utramque cavernam (talk) 22:30, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
  • @Per utramque cavernam - I see that you have now changed it to a noun on French Wiktionary. Googling doesn't find any actual usages as far as I can see, only definitions copied from each other. I have deleted the entry. Feel free to add a correct definition some time. SemperBlotto (talk) 02:35, 17 December 2017 (UTC)