tonsure
noun
the act of cutting the hair or shaving the head.
untonsured
-
a word derived from
tonsure.
Example Sentences
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The monk, tonsured and untonsured, is found in every religion.
From English Secularism A Confession Of Belief by George Jacob Holyoake
By a similar process of deduction, the nuns remained untonsured.
From Women of England by Bartlett Burleigh James
