Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A supporter of the Parliamentarians during the English Civil War and the Commonwealth.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun [lowercase] plural Same as
brachycephali . - noun In English history, a member of the Parliamentarian or Puritan party during the civil war: so called opprobriously by the Royalists or Cavaliers, in allusion to the Puritans' custom of wearing their hair closely cut, while the Cavaliers usually wore theirs in long ringlets.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Eng. Hist.) A nickname for a Puritan. See
Roundheads ,the , in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A
nickname given to the supporters ofparliament during the English Civil War.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a brachycephalic person
- noun a supporter of parliament and Oliver Cromwell during the English Civil War
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"Madam," interrupted Landless with a curious smile upon his lips, "did you not know that I was, that I am, what you call a Roundhead?"
Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia Mary Johnston 1903
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Roundhead is strong evidence of how the political dialectic is broken - it's like arguing with a 50's style Stalinist.
Balkinization 2007
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I've got "Roundhead" back again, from Conservative Party headquarters, on another blog and under a different name--apparently he's been casing my neighbourhood.
BREAKING NEWS! CC 2008
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The word "Roundhead" was first used early in 1642, though whether it originated with Henrietta Maria or with
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"Roundhead," as applied to herself; and broke forth in good earnest, when noting a smile that elongated her woman's lip, as she said, --
The Buccaneer A Tale S. C. Hall 1840
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Charles will hear him shout Ha!, and that irritating habit of his, together with Charles's treatment of the matter, was probably the origin of the terms, 'Roundhead' and 'Cavalier.'"
The Tale of Lal A Fantasy Raymond Paton
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"Roundhead," he explained, "was an older, an abler warrior than himself.
The Story of Isaac Brock Hero, Defender and Saviour of Upper Canada, 1812 Walter R. Nursey 1887
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Eventually, they established I was a Roundhead and that was the end of it.
ɘloЯ 2010
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Our armour and weaponry were of course wholly authentic, as were our battle cries of 'Ouch' and 'I can't see where I'm going', although we didn't get round to deciding who was a Roundhead, who a Cavalier.
Archive 2009-08-01 TK 2009
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Roundhead, have you come up with these no-genital "liberals", or are you just spouting idiocies and meaningless generalizations while you make empty contemptuous comments?
Balkinization 2007
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