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tonsorially en · ADV

Etymology

From tonsorial + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) In a tonsorial manner or context.
    • On horseback he looked like the ruler of a continent. Obviously he took great pains with appearance—riding boots aglitter, near-shoulder-length hair tonsorially styled[…] 2009, Michael A. Dreese, The 151st Pennsylvania Volunteers at Gettysburg:
    • Omerie, with his shaven head and Edwardian elegance, had permanently arrested his own development, tonsorially and sartorially speaking, at the modes of London in the Fifties[…] 1974, Coleman Dowell, Mrs. October was Here, page 46:
    • Cold sweats among the tonsorially challenged. 1994, Jack Zimmerman, Ten Thousand Years in the Suburbs, page 56: