TONSURED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tonsured mean? 

• TONSURED (adjective)
  The adjective TONSURED has 1 sense:

1. having a bald spot either shaved or natural

  Familiarity information: TONSURED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TONSURED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a bald spot either shaved or natural

Context example:

tonsured monks

Similar:

hairless (having no hair or fur)

 Context examples 

At the further end, in two high chairs as large as that of the Abbot, though hardly as elaborately carved, sat the master of the novices and the chancellor, the latter a broad and portly priest, with dark mirthful eyes and a thick outgrowth of crisp black hair all round his tonsured head.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)