The actor got a tonsure to play the role of a monk in the play. From LearnThat.org.
It formed what is known as the tonsure, then the mark of the monastic orders. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII] Reference
Abantes do: (96) and this kind of tonsure (κουρά) is called. From Wordnik.com. [On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay] Reference
Although he was an archbishop he had only the first tonsure. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
Here he was accepted, and in a short time received the tonsure. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
Cadfael's bushy eyebrows were arched towards his grizzled tonsure. From Wordnik.com. [The Heretic's Apprentice]
But his tonsure kept him from talking about that, if not from doing it. From Wordnik.com. [Bridge of the Separator]
The brown hair round the tonsure had grown longer than was quite seemly. From Wordnik.com. [Brother Cadfael's Penance]
If his scalp was shaved in a clerical tonsure, his red velvet cap covered it. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
His tonsure only made his forehead seem even higher than it would have anyway. From Wordnik.com. [Bridge of the Separator]
Law, that he should have the tonsure, and be, at all events technically, a clerk. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Medieval University] Reference
It was covered with dingy pine trees except the top that was bared like a tonsure. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
Keep him from the tonsure, said Isouda's voice in his mind, and I will do the rest. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil's Novice]
He had the massive features and the fringe of hair around his bald head like a tonsure. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference
Rhun's new tonsure was bared to the sun, the fair hair round it roused like an aureole. From Wordnik.com. [An Excellent Mystery]
First the tonsure, then Minor Orders, then subdeaconship, then deaconship, then priesthood. From Wordnik.com. [Baltimore Catechism No. 4 (of 4) An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine] Reference
They slept thus, and afterwards awoke in the same form, with the difference of the tonsure. From Wordnik.com. [The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings] Reference
One of his older brothers had pasted a ragged tonsure of horse's hair around his bald pate. From Wordnik.com. [Thief Of Hearts]
There was some talk of his entering a monastery where he would have had to adopt the tonsure. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of Modern Europe] Reference
After giving the boy the tonsure, I put six stitches into the scalp, and he never said a word. From Wordnik.com. [The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm] Reference
He narrowed their brightness curiously upon Cadfael's grizzled tonsure and lined and weathered face. From Wordnik.com. [Brother Cadfael's Penance]
And he has a scar on his head, bared by the tonsure, that was made by a Seljuk scimitar, some years back. From Wordnik.com. [An Excellent Mystery]
With his tonsure, Zautzes might have been able to watch his blush rise all the way to the top of his head. From Wordnik.com. [Bridge of the Separator]
His silver tonsure shone in the sun of early afternoon, and his thin patrician nose probed ahead, sniffing glory. From Wordnik.com. [The Heretic's Apprentice]
All of them, on entrance, had to have the tonsure, and provision was often made for the cutting of their hair and beard. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Medieval University] Reference
The top of his head, shaved in a tonsure, gleamed dully in the light of the one fat candle that illuminated the corridor. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
Pretty children, with their hair clipped around their heads like a priest's tonsure, sport around us, but are not intrusive. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
Lactantius was distinguishable among them by his simple Capuchin habit, his tonsure, and the extreme hardness of his features. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He looked down the length of the table to Father Elias, sitting small, attentive, and sharp-eyed under his wispy grey tonsure. From Wordnik.com. [The Heretic's Apprentice]
Anyhow, it is as impossible to show that the mutilation preceded the narrowing as it is to show that tonsure preceded baldness. From Wordnik.com. [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference
When they awaked and arose, not any difference appeared in their countenance; the tonsure alone distinguished the one from the other. From Wordnik.com. [The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings] Reference
LORD CHARLES THYNNE, second son of the Marquis of Bath, has during the week received the tonsure and three minor orders at the hands of the. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference
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