the practice of some Christian churches, mystics, and monks, of cutting the hair from the scalp of clerics, devotees or holy people as a symbol of their renunciation of worldly fashion and esteem
It's called a tonsure, specifically a roman catholic tonsure. It isn't really common today...
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He had received tonsure but was only in his fifteenth year; he was instituted to the rectory in 1308 while still a minor.
M. Subramanyam has written: 'The tonsure of Hindu widows' -- subject(s): Hinduism, Tonsure, Widows
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It is called a tonsure.