tonsured

• “In "Office of the Dead," for example, the hooded figures in the background are clearly separated from the tonsured clerics in the middle-ground, who in turn stand apart from the robed eminences in the foreground.”

  The Huffington Post: 'Fashion In The Middle Ages' At The Getty Center, Los Angeles

• “His young, handsome, tonsured head was exquisitely carved in stone.”

  The Guardian: The pope is coming. Liberals, be glad

• “The mobs in Balliguda caught hold of two boys of the Catholic hostel and tonsured their heads.”

  Oh, Fine. Just Fine.

• “Father Francisco was tonsured, wearing a thin line of hair around his otherwise bald head, while Antonio retained the silky curls Beatriz had always complained were wasted on him.”

  Simon & Schuster: Crusade

• “I'd gathered Santa Fe was an extravagant, wide-open community, but even I was astonished at the amounts I saw change hands that night; the gamblers of Santa Fe, whether they were drunk traders, flash greasers, desperate immigrants, cold-eyed swells with pistols prominently displayed in their waistbands, or even the couple of tonsured priests who had an apparently bottomless satchel of coin and crossed themselves before every cast of the dice, were evidently no pikers.”

  Fictionaut: Isabelle

• “It was short and neatly tonsured and he had a brown beard, finely trimmed to a point that just skimmed the deep rolled collar of his habit.”

  Fictionaut: Sick Cycle Carousel

• “A Benedictine like these his brothers, tonsured and habited, he stood erect in the dignity of his office and the humility and simplicity of his nature, as fragile as a child and as durable as a tree.”

  Fictionaut: His Disposition

• “Which might well be the case, seeing this man was undoubtedly tonsured, in authority here, and a priest.”

  Fictionaut: His Disposition

• “Nearly two dozen displaced Kashmiri Pandit tonsured their heads in New Delhi.www. scoopnews.in”

  Kashmiri Pandits observe September 14 as their Martyr���s Day after their exodus from their origin

• “After all, the Monks have been a persistent rumor since the 1960's, with pictures of their tonsured heads turning up on occasion.”

  NPR: The Music Of Death, Alive Again

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