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What (who) is roundhead - definition


Roundhead         
·noun A nickname for a Puritan. ·see Roundheads, the, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
Roundhead         
¦ noun historical a member or supporter of the Parliamentary party in the English Civil War.
Origin
with ref. to their short-cropped hair.
roundhead         
n.
Puritan.

Wikipedia

Roundhead
Roundheads were the supporters of the Parliament of England during the English Civil War (1642–1651). Also known as Parliamentarians, they fought against King Charles I of England and his supporters, known as the Cavaliers or Royalists, who claimed rule by absolute monarchy and the principle of the divine right of kings.
Examples of use of roundhead
1. Roundhead eating, as championed by chefs such as Fergus Henderson at St John, or the team at West London steakhouse Popeseye, or Central Londons fish restaurant J.
2. As footballers, Jack was the Roundhead, acting as the rugged defender, while Bobby was the dashing Cavalier, his entire game based on attack.
3. Winstanley lived four centuries ago, when Britain was in the throes of its bloody civil war – the six–year struggle for power between King Charles I and Parliament that pitted Royalist against Roundhead in bitter internecine battles.
4. She estimated that because of slow reproduction it would take 12 to '0 years for stocks of roughead grenadier fish to recover if fishing were halted, and 13 to 130 years for roundhead grenadiers.
5. Lloyd was more of a cavalier than a roundhead, running a magnificent garden at Great Dixter in East Sussex, which his father expanded from a building whose earliest parts date from 1464 with the help of the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens.