His name appears beside the picture of a tonsured cleric, twice in a book of hours. |
They had also brought both sons here to be tonsured for the first time, an important Hindu rite. |
A tonsured man in red appeared in the open doorway, offering us each a glass of red wine. |
To avoid suspicion, he tonsured his head, shaved his beard and moustache and even trimmed his eyebrows. |
The second presents Augustine as a tonsured monk in an austere cell, working with a quill on a small book. |
Devotees get their head tonsured and offer the hair to the Lord as fulfilment of a vow at Tirumala. |