tonsures in English
noun
1
a part of a monk's or priest's head left bare on top by shaving off the hair.
My hair was long as it always had been; our order didn't endorse tonsures , thank God.
verb
1
shave the hair on the crown of.
The second presents Augustine as a tonsured monk in an austere cell, working with a quill on a small book.
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