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Meanings of tonsured in English

Tonsured.

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Usage of tonsured in English
1
The tonsured white head was covered by a small skull-cap of purple velvet.
The Bastonnais / Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775...
2
At eighteen he became a monk and proudly had his flaxen poll tonsured.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 / Little J...
3
Remember, if things grow too-difficult, you can always be tonsured, Olaf.
The Wanderer's Necklace
4
St Mark, creaking above his head, is tonsured like a monk.
Wolf hall
5
There is a dungeon, the chanting of the procession of tonsured priests, the passing-bell.
A Little Journey in the World
6
It is a man in a crimson garment lined with white, and not tonsured.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
7
The sight of the coarse habit and the tonsured head struck a chill through me.
Margaret Tudor: A Romance of Old St. Augustine
8
He was tonsured according to the Benedictine pattern, and his lips and cheeks were clean-shaven.
The King's Achievement
9
The eager court sat with their tonsured heads together, keen to seize every weak point.
Jeanne D'Arc: Her Life And Death
10
The speaker was a man of sixty, short, stout, tonsured by the hand of time.
New Grub Street
11
I have a benefice vacant, but should dislike to see those locks of yours tonsured.
The False Chevalier / or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette
12
I, too, am a clerk of a sort, for Henriet tonsured me on Wednesday sennight.
The Black Douglas
13
But I will not have a tonsured blood drinker.
Prince Lestat
14
He had the figure and the tonsured head.
The Sleuth of St. James's Square
15
Nullus): "No one should be tonsured unless he be of legal age and willing."
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) / Translated by ...
16
This serious, sober young priest, freshly tonsured, took the pamphlet to his garret and read it.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 / Little J...
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