The tonsured white head was covered by a small skull-cap of purple velvet.

At eighteen he became a monk and proudly had his flaxen poll tonsured.

Remember, if things grow too-difficult, you can always be tonsured, Olaf.

St Mark, creaking above his head, is tonsured like a monk.

There is a dungeon, the chanting of the procession of tonsured priests, the passing-bell.

It is a man in a crimson garment lined with white, and not tonsured.

The sight of the coarse habit and the tonsured head struck a chill through me.

He was tonsured according to the Benedictine pattern, and his lips and cheeks were clean-shaven.

The eager court sat with their tonsured heads together, keen to seize every weak point.

The speaker was a man of sixty, short, stout, tonsured by the hand of time.

I have a benefice vacant, but should dislike to see those locks of yours tonsured.

I, too, am a clerk of a sort, for Henriet tonsured me on Wednesday sennight.

But I will not have a tonsured blood drinker.

He had the figure and the tonsured head.

Nullus): "No one should be tonsured unless he be of legal age and willing."

This serious, sober young priest, freshly tonsured, took the pamphlet to his garret and read it.