| They had also brought both sons here to be tonsured for the first time, an important Hindu rite. |
| Emerging from the monster's mouth is a tonsured man in a white tunic waving his arms at the saints struck down. |
| Whilst reading the papers before lunch with some friends, I was asked if I knew what it meant to be tonsured. |
| His name appears beside the picture of a tonsured cleric, twice in a book of hours. |
| To avoid suspicion, he tonsured his head, shaved his beard and moustache and even trimmed his eyebrows. |
| A tonsured man in red appeared in the open doorway, offering us each a glass of red wine. |
