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单词 tonsure
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tonsure
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If you are a monk that shaves all or some of your hair for religious reasons, that bald spot is called a tonsure. The act of creating that spot is also known as tonsure.
In Buddhism, Hinduism and Christianity, hair is often considered a vanity. Men entering a religious order choose a tonsure as a way of denouncing the vanity and worldly ways represented by hair. At one time, tonsure was required if you wanted to enter the clergy, though today it rarely is. The tonsure represents a commitment to a more austere and less proud lifestyle.
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tonsure: tonsured, tonsures, tonsuring
USAGE EXAMPLES
There were clerks with neat little skull-caps to keep their tonsures warm, dressed in sober clothes which contrasted with the laity.
T. H. White, The Once and Future King(1958)
The practice of hair-shaving - or "tonsuring" as it is termed when done for religious reasons - is associated with an ancient Hindu myth.
BBC(Apr 12, 2016)
Now he was small and wizened, with sparse gray tonsured hair.
Avi, Crispin: The Cross of Lead(2002)
1n shaving the crown of the head by priests or members of a monastic order
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shave, shaving
the act of removing hair with a razor
2n the shaved crown of a monk's or priest's head
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crown, pate, poll
the top of the head
3v shave the head of a newly inducted monk
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shave
remove body hair with a razor
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