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Roundhead
[ round-hed ]
noun
- a member or adherent of the Parliamentarians or Puritan party during the civil wars of the 17th century (so called in derision by the Cavaliers because they wore their hair cut short).
Roundhead
/ 藞谤补蕣苍诲藢丑蓻诲 /
noun
- English history a supporter of Parliament against Charles I during the Civil War Compare Cavalier
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of Roundhead1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of Roundhead1
Example Sentences
When Hall stepped away to have back surgery in November, bassist and vocalist Matt Bissonette, who has played with the David Lee Roth Band, Ringo Starr and the Roundheads, and Electric Light Orchestra, stepped in.
But his reign soon was overshadowed by civil war between supportive royalists and Oliver Cromwell鈥檚 鈥淩oundheads,鈥 also known as puritans.
I was 13 when a friend鈥檚 grandmother looked at me and asked, 鈥淩oundhead or Cavalier?鈥 鈥 terms coined to denote opposing sides in the English Civil War.
It鈥檚 an image as old as England, Roundhead against Cavalier - and we know which side the country reverts to in the end.
The contents had become mixed when the cathedral was ransacked and the bones were scattered by Roundhead soldiers during the English Civil War in 1642.
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