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Roundheads - Definition and Overview |
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The Roundheads was the nickname given to supporters of the Parliamentarian cause in the English Civil War. The Royalists, on the other side, were the nicknamed Cavaliers.
The Roundheads were so nicknamed because of the relatively short plain page boy style haircuts favoured by Puritans, rather than the long ringlets of the fashionable courtly Cavaliers.
The name started as a term of abuse and in the New Model Army it was a punishable offence to call a fellow soldier a Roundhead.
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Example Usage of Roundheads |
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TV38Blockhead: Happy Thanksgiving, Roundheads! What are you doing on Facebook when you should be enjoying yourself? http://bit.ly/8iAz9M |
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jrhermeneut: The Cavaliers = the original Jheri curlers. Good days for head fashion, those were. Stupid Roundheads had to go and ruin it for us all. |
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bookofdavid: ...above the churning whoosh of hot air is the sound of feminism being strapped into a time machine and launched into a crowd of Roundheads |
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