tonsuring
- present participle of tonsure.
Example Sentences
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In basements they could see through half-open doors at the bottom of ladderlike steps, earnest-faced men, with long, well-tended queues of hair, busily tonsuring sleepy clients.
From The Port of Adventure by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
We see King perhaps laid aside; not tonsured, tonsuring is out of fashion now; but say, sent away any whither, with handsome annual allowance, and stock of smith-tools.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
In Bogle's time "thunder-stones" were still used for tonsuring the lamas, and even now stone cooking-pots are found amongst the shepherds of the uplands, although they are acquainted both with copper and iron.
From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court
