词汇 | roundheads |
词源 | Roundheads. Cromwell’s soldiers and all Puritans of En- gland’s Civil War period were called Roundheads and crops be- cause, in contrast to the Royalists, who had long flowing hair, their hair was “trimmed close to a bowl-dish, placed as a guide on their heads.” |
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