tonsure

• The other, although in citizen's dress, he saw by the tonsure was a priest The sight of such a one in that garb and that environment, diverted for the moment Champney Googe's thoughts from the child and her song. —  Flamsted quarries
• In 1357 he received the tonsure, and in 1360 was made Dean of S. Martin's Le Grand, Archdeacon of Lincoln, Northampton, and Buckingham, and Provost of Wells. —  Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See
• It formed what is known as the tonsure, then the mark of the monastic orders. —  Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII
• He has assumed the tonsure, and resides there with his beautiful daughter. —  Japanese Literature Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan
• Others declared that he had no right to the gray capote, and his tonsure was a natural loss of hair; in fact, that he never had been a friar at all. —  Old Kaskaskia

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