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Tonsured
Tonsured adjective - Having a bald spot either shaved or natural.
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Shaved and tonsured are semantically related in without growth on body part topic. You can use "Shaved" instead an adjective "Tonsured".
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When the last Merovingian king, Childeric III was dethroned by his mayor of the palace, Pepin the Short, he was sent to a monastery and tonsured (having his head shaved save for a strip of hair) like all the monks there, thus symbolically deprived of his royal powers.
Source: Traumatic Haircut
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