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The Pillars of the Earth vocabulary
13 Christianity and/or Biblical vocabulary words
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tonsure
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tags: [christianity] [fashion]
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Definition:the shaved crown of a monk's head
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They were to be seen among the tradesmen and suitors who crowded the levees of the great, distinguishable in the throng by their black clothes, and a very small tonsure.
Edward J. Lowell. The Eve of the French Revolution
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The patch of his tonsure needed shaving; short bristly hairs covered it like moss.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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He as a tall man about thirty-five, with a thin, freckled face, and a scalp that was bald except for a tonsure of bright red hair.
Sidney Sheldon. Bloodline, p.267 (1977)
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Stephen Dedalus, displeased and sleepy, leaned his arms on the top of the staircase and looked coldly at the shaking gurgling face that blessed him, equine in its length, and at the light untonsured hair, grained and hued like pale oak.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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