tonsure

     

Tonsure is the practice of some Christian churches, mystics, Budhist novices and monks, and some Hindu temples of cutting the hair from the scalp of clerics, devotees or holy people as a symbol of their renunciation of worldly fashion and esteem.

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  • It's the act of shaving one's head, or the part of a monk's head that has been shaved
  • It's the distinctive shaving of the head by priests or monks
  • From the Latin for "to clip", it's the shaved patch on the crowns of the heads of some monks

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