tonsured

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Tonsured monks, one of whom fashions this crucifix, and their followers who bow before the Host upon the altar.

From Benita, an African romance by Haggard, Henry Rider

They knew that it must be St. Patrick, the Tailkenn, or Tonsured One, who was bringing, as had been so long promised, Christianity to Ireland.

From Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

Tonsured friars and grave citizens, with heads garlanded, mingled with the children and danced like David before the Ark, shouting, "Viva Cristo e la Vergine Maria nostra regina."

From The Story of Florence by Gardner, Edmund G.