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Roman tonsure (Catholicism) Tonsure (/ ˈ t ɒ n ʃ ər /) is the practice of cutting or shaving some or all of the hair on the scalp as a sign of religious devotion or humility.. The term originates from the Latin word tonsura (meaning "clipping" or "shearing" [1]) and referred to a specific practice in medieval Catholicism, abandoned by papal order in 19
A Thai Buddhist monk shaving the head of a man preparing to also become a Buddhist monk; this is known as tonsure. Head shaving is a form of body modification which involves shaving the hair from a person's head. People throughout history have shaved all or part of their heads for diverse reasons including aesthetics, convenience, culture ...
The style means shaving the sides and back of the head, leaving just a suggestion of hair on top. The corresponding hairstyle for female police officers and female soldiers, in case of long hair (shoulder level), must keep their hair in a bun with the proper color of ribbon and net (black, dark brown or navy blue). [15]
Many Orthodox and Hasidic Jewish boys get their first haircut when they are three years old. The hair-cutting ceremony is known in Yiddish as the upsherenish or upsherin ("shear off"), and in Hebrew as halaqah (from the Arabic حلاقة - "to shave").
The child's hair is shorn, frequently leaving only the śikhā or cūḍā, a tuft at the crown of the head. Originally, the arrangement of the śikhā was the most significant feature of the Chudakarana and the number of tufts was determined by the number of the pravaras belonging to the gotra of the child.
P. Palatine aponeurosis; Palatopharyngeus muscle; Paranasal sinuses; Parietal bone; Pars intermedia; Patulous Eustachian tube; Peripharyngeal space; Pharyngeal pouch ...
Cardinal Franciszek Macharski with a scarlet zucchetto. The zucchetto (/(t) s uː ˈ k ɛ t oʊ, z uː ˈ-/, [1] also UK: / t s ʊ ˈ-/, [2] US: / z ʊ ˈ-/, [3] Italian: [dzukˈketto]; meaning 'small gourd', from zucca 'pumpkin' or more generally 'gourd'; plural in English: zucchettos) [a] [4] or solideo, [5] officially a pileolus, [6] is a small, hemispherical, form-fitting ecclesiastical ...
Question -- should "Tonsure" be pared down and made part of a larger article on hair and religion? Cutting hair has religious significance in many religions. But it is stretch to lump it all under the specific term "Tonsure", which instead should be considered a more narrow subset specific to removal of hair on the head.