(n)Czech dramatist and statesman whose plays opposed totalitarianism and who served as president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 to 1992 and president of the Czech Republic since 1993 (born in 1936), Syn.Vaclav Havel
n. [ From Havelock, an English general distinguished in India in the rebellion of 1857. ] A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. [ 1913 Webster ]