tonsured

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

In both we see Vos in a smoke-colored hooded robe, kneeling before Mary, his hair severely tonsured.

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2018

But, he was blessed by Archbishop Benjamin in 2011 and says he’s the first official tonsured bell-ringer in the United States since the Russian Revolution.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 12, 2017

Tall, thin, tonsured, he looked like a mild-mannered Quaker, and turned out to be a descendant of ministers and missionaries.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 16, 2015

A gaggle of monks in brown habits, their heads tonsured in repentant horseshoes, rises and begins to chant.

From Salon • Jun. 4, 2014

Now he was small and wizened, with sparse gray tonsured hair.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi