What is "roundheads"

Usage examples of "roundheads".

Armed Roundheads and Scotch Covenanters combined prayer with sword exercise.

The Bard hears the din of arms and news comes that the Turks, Papists, and Roundheads are advancing in three armies.

Turks, the Papists and the murderous Roundheads in three armies, filling the whole plain of Darkness, committing every outrage and turning everything topsy-turvey.

After that it was the Eighteenth Century, and people suddenly stopped being Cavaliers and Roundheads and became extraordinarily elegant gentlemen in knee breeches and three-cornered hats.

English Roundheads, and he had the bearing rather of a Cromwellian Puritan than of a Dantonist Man of the Mountain.

With the court in exile and the grim Roundheads seated in the seats of the mighty, it was no longer the merry London of his early manhood.

Spanish galleon which was secreted in Standingham Castle while the Cavaliers and Roundheads battled around its walls.

Harlech Castle, some twenty-five years before his birth, had been the scene of many a fray between Roundheads and Cavaliers, and of the last stand made by the Welsh for King Charles.