Definition of "tonsures" [tonsures]

• Plural form of tonsure. (noun)

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• "72 Alberti describes the round windows in these temples as "tonsures" (akin to the oculus of the Roman Pantheon), in which case the openings would be visible only from the building's interior."
• "In the 19th century, a movement developed that imagined itself to be reconstituting an early medieval view of the musician as a part of the clerical class, complete with ordinations and tonsures."
• "We aren't at leisure to just sit around all day copying religious texts with a quill pen and maintaining our tonsures."