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Roundheads

Puritans; so called because they wore their hair short, while the Royalists wore long hair covering their shoulders.

And ere their butter `gan to coddle,
A bullet churnd i'th Roundhead's noddle.

Men Miracies, p. 43 (1656).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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