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Tonsured

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ton·sure  (tnshr)
n.
1. The act of shaving the head or part of the head, especially as a preliminary to becoming a priest or a member of a monastic order.
2. The part of a monk's or priest's head that has been shaved.
tr.v. ton·sured, ton·sur·ing, ton·sures
To shave the head of.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin tnsra, from Latin, a shearing, from tnsus, past participle of tondre, to shear; see tem- in Indo-European roots.]
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Adj.1.Tonsuredtonsured - having a bald spot either shaved or natural; "tonsured monks"
hairless - having no hair or fur; "a Mexican Hairless is about the size of a fox terrier and hairless except for a tufts on the head and tail"


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One garment was all that Norman of Torn would permit him, and as the sun was hot overhead he selected for the Bishop a bassinet for that single article of apparel, to protect his tonsured pate from the rays of old sol.
The Outlaw of Torn by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
At the further end, in two high chairs as large as that of the Abbot, though hardly as elaborately carved, sat the master of the novices and the chancellor, the latter a broad and portly priest, with dark mirthful eyes and a thick outgrowth of crisp black hair all round his tonsured head.
The White Company by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
And so it remains to all time a lasting record of human needs and human consolations; the voice of a brother who, ages ago, felt and suffered and renounced,--in the cloister, perhaps, with serge gown and tonsured head, with much chanting and long fasts, and with a fashion of speech different from ours,--but under the same silent far-off heavens, and with the same passionate desires, the same strivings, the same failures, the same weariness.
The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context
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