Roundhead
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- (Informel) (Histoire) Tête-ronde.
Cavaliers ‘boast wonderfully and swear most hellishly’, wrote a young Roundhead, and although they prayed too, they did so less ostentatiously, like Sir Jacob Astley before the battle of Edgehill – ‘O Lord, Thou knowest how busy I must be this day: if I forget Thee, do not Thou forget me.’
— (Robert Tombs, The English and their History, Penguin Books, 2014, page 225)