pickelhaube
See also: Pickelhaube
English
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from German Pickelhaube.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpickelhaube (plural pickelhaubes or pickelhauben)
- (historical) A spiked helmet worn by German troops, especially during the First World War. [from 19th c.]
- 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 299:
- Whereupon an outlandish production number breaks out in which the Marx Brothers play xylophone on the pickelhauben of the assembled soldiers […] .
Translations
edithelmet
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