Editing Tonsure (section)

=====Monastic tonsure=====
Apart from this general clerical tonsure, some [[Latin liturgical rites|Western Rite]] monastic orders, for example [[Carthusian]]s and [[Trappist]]s, employed a very full version of tonsure, shaving the head entirely bald and keeping only a narrow ring of short hair, sometimes called "the monastic crown" (see "Roman tonsure", above), from the time of entrance into the monastic [[novitiate]] for all monks, whether destined for service as priests or brothers.