Crossword-Solution: TONSURES 8 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

This holiness does not consist in albs, tonsures, long gowns, and other of their ceremonies devised by them beyond Holy Scripture, but in the Word of God and true faith.

Now Louis de Coutes, being but a boy, and of a mad humour, cried-- "'Cucullus non facit monachum!' Good sirs, let us see your reverend tonsures." With that he twitched the hood from the head of a tall cordelier, who, without more ado, felled him to the earth with his fist.

They were both tall men, and they stood with their cowls over their tonsures, in the conventual attitude, their hands tucked away into the ample sleeves of their brown habits.

They comprehended a multitude of both sexes and of all ages, already initiated into the divine secret, clad in fair linen, the females veiled, the males with shining tonsures, and every one carrying a sistrum—the richer sort of silver, a few very dainty persons of fine gold—rattling the reeds, with a noise like the jargon of innumerable birds and insects awakened from torpor and abroad in the spring sun.

Certainly, at any rate, there is more intellect in it than under all the monkish tonsures it has seen coming and going these three hundred years.