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roundhead = supporter of Puritan/Parliamentary revolt in 17th Century English Civil War.  Originally a derisive reference to page-boy haircuts popular among Puritans.
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* '''Roundheads:''' 17th Century Puritans in the English Civil War; they supported Parliament and Oliver Cromwell, and opposed Charles I and the Cavaliers; the name was originally a derisive reference to page-boy haircuts popular among Puritans → eggheads → [[Humpty Dumpty]]
  
Here it also refers, inter alia, to an egghead, Humpty Dumpty.
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* '''roundhead:''' a type of screw?
  
(The Roundheads' opponents were the Cavaliers, so one would expect that word to appear in some form in Wake's first chapter.)
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* '''rounded'''
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* '''Roundhead staple:''' Round Table Conferences 1930-33: a series of three conferences held in London to discuss constitutional reform in India; the second and third were chaired by Freeman-Freeman Thomas, Lord Willingdon → 004.18 [[freemen's maurer]]
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* '''Roundhead staple:''' Round Table Conference, 1887: a conference held in 1887 when the Whigs and Liberals split over Gladstone's Home Rule Bill (which proposed to grant a measure of independence to Ireland); it was chaired by William Harcourt (Harcourt Street, Dublin, takes its name from Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1772-76)
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* '''Roundhead staple:''' the Round Table of Arthurian legend
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* '''Howth:''' the name derives from the Danish ''hoved'', head; Howth is round in appearance

Revision as of 05:46, 25 June 2006

  • Roundheads: 17th Century Puritans in the English Civil War; they supported Parliament and Oliver Cromwell, and opposed Charles I and the Cavaliers; the name was originally a derisive reference to page-boy haircuts popular among Puritans → eggheads → Humpty Dumpty
  • roundhead: a type of screw?
  • rounded
  • Roundhead staple: Round Table Conferences 1930-33: a series of three conferences held in London to discuss constitutional reform in India; the second and third were chaired by Freeman-Freeman Thomas, Lord Willingdon → 004.18 freemen's maurer
  • Roundhead staple: Round Table Conference, 1887: a conference held in 1887 when the Whigs and Liberals split over Gladstone's Home Rule Bill (which proposed to grant a measure of independence to Ireland); it was chaired by William Harcourt (Harcourt Street, Dublin, takes its name from Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1772-76)
  • Roundhead staple: the Round Table of Arthurian legend
  • Howth: the name derives from the Danish hoved, head; Howth is round in appearance