pickelhaube

See also: Pickelhaube

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Pickelhaube.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɪk(ə)lhaʊbə/

Noun

pickelhaube (plural pickelhaubes or pickelhauben)

1. (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

helmet

• Danish: pikkelhue c
• French: casque à pointe (fr) f
• German: Pickelhaube (de) f
• Italian: elmo chiodato m
• Russian: пике́льхаубе m (pikɛ́lʹxaubɛ), пикельхе́льм m (pikelʹxɛ́lʹm)
• Swedish: pickelhuva (sv)