rasure

  1. Noun.  (context, now) Scraping the surface of a parchment etc. in order to erase something from the document; erasure, more generally.
  2. Noun.  (context, now) Obliteration, destruction.
  3. Noun.  (obsolete) Shaving the head, or an instance of this; a tonsure.

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