tonsure

glossary / tonsure

Hist. The shaving of a person’s (usu. a cleric’s) head.

• Serjeants-at-law supposedly wore coifs to conceal their shaved heads.

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译者Mathew，国际知名法学院国际仲裁与争端解决专业，擅长翻译各种与美国国内仲裁相关的法律文件。