tonsures
- present tense form of tonsure (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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There were clerks with neat little skull-caps to keep their tonsures warm, dressed in sober clothes which contrasted with the laity.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Who has ever seen meat, tonsures, cowls, monasteries, hair-shirts coming out of men's mouths?
From Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) by Luther, Martin
They were both tall men, and they stood with their cowls over their tonsures, in the conventual attitude, their hands tucked away into the ample sleeves of their brown habits.
From The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza by Sabatini, Rafael
The Jesuit seminaristas bear themselves more decorously, the tonsures gleaming like silver coins on their young heads.
From Spanish Highways and Byways by Bates, Katharine Lee
A set of monkish dresses, which had been provided, with all the proper apparatus of crosses, beads, tonsures, &c. often gave a variety to our appearance, and to our pursuits.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 1 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas
