tonsure

How To Use tonsure In A Sentence

• His young, handsome, tonsured head was exquisitely carved in stone. The pope is coming. Liberals, be glad
• His dark hair lay cropped close to his head like a monk's tonsure and his small black eyes sat deep within their sockets like tiny pieces of coal buried in a lump of snow.
• It's survived in a very peculiar form, with the so-called monks are actually married and have their hair long, unlike in the South where they're tonsured, and they wear civilian clothes but with the robes just over the tops of them.
• He was for all practical purposes bald, with just a ring of white, wispy hair circling his skull like an elderly monk's tonsure. BLACK EAGLES
• The monk's hair was tonsured and probably cropped to control lice.
• Buddhist monks shaved the heads of ceremony leaders, while many other Dalits arrived having already tonsured their heads.
• His cowl had fallen back, exposing his tonsure.
• 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. His Disposition
• His own hair was balding naturally in the form of a tonsure. THE GOLDEN LION
• Tonsures and minor orders (the officiating prelate is H.E. Msgr. Basil Meeking, Bishop emeritus of Christchurch, New Zealand): 2009 Ordinations for the Institute of Christ the King