How To Use Tonsured In A Sentence
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His young, handsome, tonsured head was exquisitely carved in stone.
The pope is coming. Liberals, be glad
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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.
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The monk's hair was tonsured and probably cropped to control lice.
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Buddhist monks shaved the heads of ceremony leaders, while many other Dalits arrived having already tonsured their heads.
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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
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tonsured monks
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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.
Isabelle
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To avoid suspicion, he tonsured his head, shaved his beard and moustache and even trimmed his eyebrows.
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Partibhan, who had tonsured his head for his forthcoming film, sported a cap.
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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
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Whilst reading the papers before lunch with some friends, I was asked if I knew what it meant to be tonsured.
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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.
Crusade
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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.
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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.
'Fashion In The Middle Ages' At The Getty Center, Los Angeles
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Peruse any illustrated Inferno, and you will find, among the pictured thieves, usurers, murderers, and traitors, numerous tonsured pates, episcopal miters, and papal tiaras.
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The mobs in Balliguda caught hold of two boys of the Catholic hostel and tonsured their heads.
Oh, Fine. Just Fine.
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Devotees get their head tonsured and offer the hair to the Lord as fulfilment of a vow at Tirumala.
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They had also brought both sons here to be tonsured for the first time, an important Hindu rite.
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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
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A hundred and fifty tonsured apostles of incivism here fell in one day beneath the two-handed sword of freedom.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844
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The young kneeling, tonsured figure on the right appears to be a high-ranking ecclesiastic - a canon or dean - whose biretta rests at Christ's bound feet.
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Many, like Chen, were tonsured, making official an affiliation that, prior to the war, may have been only an intellectual inclination or a mark of status.
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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.
'Fashion In The Middle Ages' At The Getty Center, Los Angeles
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Which might well be the case, seeing this man was undoubtedly tonsured, in authority here, and a priest.
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