pickelhaube
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈpɪk(ə)lhaʊbə/
pickelhaube (plural pickelhaubes)
- (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:
- German: Pickelhaube
- Russian: пике́льхаубе
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