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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Roundheads
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Supporters of the parliamentary cause in the *English Civil War. Like *Cavalier, the word was in use from the early 1640s; it referred derisively to the shorter hair preferred by the Puritans.
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