pickelhaube
See also: Pickelhaube
English
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from German Pickelhaube.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpɪk(ə)lhaʊbə/
Noun
pickelhaube (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 2012, p. 299:
- Whereupon an outlandish production number breaks out in which the Marx Brothers play xylophone on the pickelhauben of the assembled soldiers […] .
- 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin 2012, p. 299:
Translations
helmet
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