Since the 8th century three tonsures have been more or less in use, known respectively as the Roman, the Greek and the Celtic. The first two are sometimes distinguished as the tonsure of Peter and the tonsure of Paul.   anvd [Please select]

I shaved my head, so that the tonsure was no longer visible.   anvd [Please select]

In two hours I captured twenty butterflies, of whom two were tonsured; no more.   anvd [Please select]

Of fourteen marked by the tonsure two only returned.   anvd [Please select]

On the next day they were marked, by means of a slight tonsure on the thorax.   anvd [Please select]

So, while he's on his way to Rome, to get himself tonsured and becassocked, she's scrubbing the floors of an Ursuline convent, as a novice.   anvd [Please select]

The hair, cut shorter on the top of his skull, still indicated the place of a half-effaced tonsure.   anvd [Please select]

After the tonsured filth we've been accustomed to call a world, all this strikes one as unnatural and extraordinary.   anvd [Please select]

She therefore went into a convent; and he received the tonsure, and was in due time made Bishop of Auxerre.   anvd [Please select]

This proved too much for one of the faithful tonsured dependents of the place, and he ventured to expostulate with his master.   anvd [Please select]

Like those marked with the tonsure, which had undergone no damaging operation, they proved only that their time was finished.   anvd [Please select]