Definition of "tonsured" [ton•sured]

• Simple past tense and past participle of tonsure. (verb)

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• "In "Office of the Dead," for example, the hooded figures in the background are clearly separated from the tonsured clerics in the middle-ground, who in turn stand apart from the robed eminences in the foreground."
• "His young, handsome, tonsured head was exquisitely carved in stone."
• "The mobs in Balliguda caught hold of two boys of the Catholic hostel and tonsured their heads."