英语词汇“tonsure”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

tonsure

/ˈtɒnʃə

noun

1A part of a monk’s or priest’s head left bare on top by shaving off the hair: his hair is thinning up there—soon he’ll have a tonsure like a monk’s...

My hair was long as it always had been; our order didn't endorse tonsures, thank God.
His cowl had fallen back, exposing his tonsure.
His dark hair lay cropped close to his head like a monk's tonsure and his small black eyes sat deep within their sockets like tiny pieces of coal buried in a lump of snow.

1.1 [in singular] An act of shaving the top of a monk’s or priest’s head as a preparation for entering a religious order: he received the tonsure...

At that time Nimmyo's mother, Dowager Empress Saga, took the tonsure and entered a temple.
Yet Jacques Daret had been tutored as a child and was a trained cleric who received his tonsure from the bishop of Cambrai in 1423.

verb [with object] (often as adjective tonsured)

Give a tonsure to: Louis’s half-brothers were tonsured and sent away to monasteries...

Buddhist monks shaved the heads of ceremony leaders, while many other Dalits arrived having already tonsured their heads.
Whilst reading the papers before lunch with some friends, I was asked if I knew what it meant to be tonsured.
They had also brought both sons here to be tonsured for the first time, an important Hindu rite.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin tonsura, from tondere 'shear, clip'.

单词	tonsure
释义	tonsure /ˈtɒnʃə / noun 1A part of a monk’s or priest’s head left bare on top by shaving off the hair: his hair is thinning up there—soon he’ll have a tonsure like a monk’s... My hair was long as it always had been; our order didn't endorse tonsures, thank God. His cowl had fallen back, exposing his tonsure. His dark hair lay cropped close to his head like a monk's tonsure and his small black eyes sat deep within their sockets like tiny pieces of coal buried in a lump of snow. 1.1 [in singular] An act of shaving the top of a monk’s or priest’s head as a preparation for entering a religious order: he received the tonsure... At that time Nimmyo's mother, Dowager Empress Saga, took the tonsure and entered a temple. Yet Jacques Daret had been tutored as a child and was a trained cleric who received his tonsure from the bishop of Cambrai in 1423. verb [with object] (often as adjective tonsured) Give a tonsure to: Louis’s half-brothers were tonsured and sent away to monasteries... Buddhist monks shaved the heads of ceremony leaders, while many other Dalits arrived having already tonsured their heads. Whilst reading the papers before lunch with some friends, I was asked if I knew what it meant to be tonsured. They had also brought both sons here to be tonsured for the first time, an important Hindu rite. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin tonsura, from tondere 'shear, clip'.
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