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UK
/tˈɒnʒɐ/
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NOUN
- the shaved crown of a monk's or priest's head
- shaving the crown of the head by priests or members of a monastic order
VERB
- shave the head of a newly inducted monk
How To Use tonsure In A Sentence
- 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
- One of the disputed matters might seem absurd to us now: it was the form of the tonsure, the way in which monks shaved the tops of their heads.
- Hence the patriots of Malcy village had earmarked her for tonsure. DISPLACED PERSON
- At that time Nimmyo's mother, Dowager Empress Saga, took the tonsure and entered a temple.
- Peruse any illustrated Inferno, and you will find, among the pictured thieves, usurers, murderers, and traitors, numerous tonsured pates, episcopal miters, and papal tiaras.
- The mobs in Balliguda caught hold of two boys of the Catholic hostel and tonsured their heads. Oh, Fine. Just Fine.
- Former Chinese actress and business celebrity Chen Xiaoxu has taken the tonsure at a Buddhist temple in Changchun, capital of Jilin province in northeast China, her husband told a newspaper Sunday.
- His cowl had fallen back, exposing his tonsure.
- Then her beautiful locks are submitted to the tonsure; and to signify her deadness forever to the world, she is clothed in a dress of coarse grey cloth, called serge, in which she is to pass the miserable remnant of her days. Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal
- Hence the patriots of Malcy village had earmarked her for tonsure. DISPLACED PERSON
