[countableC]RRHBH a small round area on the top of someone’s head where their hair has been removed because they are a priest or a monk 〔教士或僧人的〕头顶剃光部分,光头
—tonsuredadjectiveadj
his tonsured head
他已经剃度的头
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tonsure• The older boy, leaner and more muscular, has shorter hair and a small skull-cap which may conceal a tonsure.• Perhaps the guy has a heatsensor where his tonsure should be.• And if you want funnypeculiar, simply gaze upon Thierry Boutsen's reverse-flip bird's-nesttonsure.• Tuda wore a Petrine tonsure and observed the RomanEaster.• He had others in his grizzledrussettonsure, dropped from the higher branches as the windstirred them.• He was baldingfast, with a monk's tonsure.