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What is a tonsure?

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∙ 17y ago
Updated: 11/17/2022

the practice of some Christian churches, mystics, and monks, of cutting the hair from the scalp of clerics, devotees or holy people as a symbol of their renunciation of worldly fashion and esteem

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