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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 iʹ thʹ Roundhead’s noddle.”
Men Miracles, p. 43 (1656).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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