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(often derogatory) Someone with all or part of their head shaved, notably a tonsured clergyman; a priest or monk..
“Bonny times,” he said, “I have lived to see, when a lad of Earl Oslac’s blood is sent out of the land, a beggar and a wolf’s head, for playing a boy’s trick or two, and upsetting a shaveling priest.”
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Shaveling means (often derogatory) Someone with all or part of their head shaved, notably a tonsured clergyman; a priest or monk..
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“Bonny times,” he said, “I have lived to see, when a lad of Earl Oslac’s blood is sent out of the land, a beggar and a wolf’s head, for playing a boy’s trick or two, and upsetting a shaveling priest.”
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