What's the difference between longfin and roundhead?
Longfin
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Roundhead
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(n.) A nickname for a Puritan. See Roundheads, the, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the late 1960s I applied for a job at the BBC in Glasgow and was, as people at the BBC used to say, "boarded", meaning that I went to be interviewed by six or seven executives who sat at a long table facing me rather like the inquisitorial Roundheads in the William Frederick Yeames painting And When Did You Last See Your Father?
(2) It was rumoured that the department would get the chop as Conservative roundheads suggested folding the “ministry of fun” into the business department, but that is unlikely to happen with such a high-profile appointment.
(3) Naming an attacker whose form is so unpredictable was a cavalier gesture from the roundhead Benítez.
(4) It was a good test and a good opportunity to show we can compete.” For a clash between the roundheads and the pragmatic cavaliers of the Premier League , Spurs enjoyed the expected majority of possession in the first half without making it pay.
(5) That is more difficult and volatile, less cohesive, rooted in class and power, and riddled with grievances between competing forms of Englishness – democratic or deferential, closed or open, roundhead or cavalier.
(6) For Hollywood, which he called "Shepherd's Bush wrapped in cellophane", and the domestic industry he adapted the act in more than 100 films to roles such as the Roundhead colonel in the British civil-war epic The Scarlet Blade (1963), the perfidious Inspector Fred "Nosey" Parker in The Wrong Arm of the Law (1962), and as Stanley Farquhar, the spy who was as inefficient as the dog in The Spy With a Cold Nose (1966).
(7) Some say the last time the peace was disturbed was in 1643 when Roundheads and Cavaliers fought in its streets.
(8) Cesar plus military types (who always add a certain old-school glamour to a major trophy presentation, in my book, but that's a discussion for another day) The cavaliers had seen off the roundheads.
(9) Now an Anglican church, there are signs of Cromwellian vandalism, such as angels' faces smashed by the iconoclastic Roundhead soldiers, and, intriguingly, a memorial tablet to a Galwegian Jane Eyre – local legend has it she was the inspiration for Charlotte Brontë's heroine.
(10) If, during the constitutional settlement that will follow the referendum, we in England can rediscover our Roundhead tradition, we might yet counter our historic weakness for ethnic nationalism with an outpouring of civic engagement that creates a fairer society for all.