Now as solemn as a traveller, and as grave as a Puritan's ruff

Marston, Antonio and Mellida, I., Ind. From that time followed nothing but Imprisonments, troubles, disgraces on all those that found fault with the Decrees of the Convocation, and strait were they branded with the Name of Puritans . Milton , Reformation in Eng., i. The extreme Puritan was at once known from other men by his gait, his garb, his lank hair, the sour solemnity of his face, the upturned white of his eyes, the nasal twang with which he spoke, and above all by his peculiar dialect. Macaulay . =Syn. Puritan , Pilgrim . Careful distinction should be made between the Pilgrims or Pilgrim Fathers, who settled at Plymouth in 1620, and the Puritans , who in 1628-30 founded the colony of Ma achusetts Bay at Salem and Boston.