SANBENITO

noun (plural -tos) Etymology: Spanish sambenito, from San Benito Saint Benedict of Nursia Date: circa 1560 a sackcloth coat worn by penitents on being reconciled to the church, a Spanish Inquisition garment resembling a scapular and being either yellow with red crosses for the penitent or black with painted devils and flames for the impenitent condemned to an auto-da-fé