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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
From the Latin tondere, ‘to shear’, the shaved scalp that signified the wearer’s status as *clergy. The corona
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Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
The cutting of the hair, reducing it to a crown, a veritable rite of initiation into the world of the
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Alice-Mary Talbot and Alexander Kazhdan
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
(κουρά), the ritual of cutting the hair by which a lay person was admitted to the monastic or clerical state. Although the custom was not prescribed by any canon, it was practiced as early ...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)
a part of a monk's or priest's head left bare on top by shaving off the hair. In the Eastern church the whole head is shaven (the ...
