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- noun a spiked helmet worn by German soldiers
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Examples
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[Illustration] _Lambeth Larrikin_ (_in a pasteboard "pickelhaube," and a false nose, thoughtfully, to BATTERSEA BILL, who is wearing an old grey chimney-pot hat, with the brim uppermost, and a tow wig, as they contemplate a party of Botocudo natives_).
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 8, 1891 Various
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At different moments in Jez Butterworth's play Jerusalem, the noted Shakespearean Mark Rylance sports a pickelhaube the spiked emblem of Great War-era German militarism, a knit cap with satanic-looking triangular points, and a searing cross burned into his back by vengeful hooligans.
Eamon Murphy: Theater Review: Jerusalem Eamon Murphy 2011
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At different moments in Jez Butterworth's play Jerusalem, the noted Shakespearean Mark Rylance sports a pickelhaube the spiked emblem of Great War-era German militarism, a knit cap with satanic-looking triangular points, and a searing cross burned into his back by vengeful hooligans.
Eamon Murphy: Theater Review: Jerusalem Eamon Murphy 2011
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This, I think, is the meaning of Rooster's pickelhaube.
Eamon Murphy: Theater Review: Jerusalem Eamon Murphy 2011
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This, I think, is the meaning of Rooster's pickelhaube.
Eamon Murphy: Theater Review: Jerusalem Eamon Murphy 2011
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This, I think, is the meaning of Rooster's pickelhaube.
Eamon Murphy: Theater Review: Jerusalem Eamon Murphy 2011
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At different moments in Jez Butterworth's play Jerusalem, the noted Shakespearean Mark Rylance sports a pickelhaube the spiked emblem of Great War-era German militarism, a knit cap with satanic-looking triangular points, and a searing cross burned into his back by vengeful hooligans.
Eamon Murphy: Theater Review: Jerusalem Eamon Murphy 2011
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At different moments in Jez Butterworth's play Jerusalem, the noted Shakespearean Mark Rylance sports a pickelhaube the spiked emblem of Great War-era German militarism, a knit cap with satanic-looking triangular points, and a searing cross burned into his back by vengeful hooligans.
Eamon Murphy: Theater Review: Jerusalem Eamon Murphy 2011
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This, I think, is the meaning of Rooster's pickelhaube.
Eamon Murphy: Theater Review: Jerusalem Eamon Murphy 2011
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There was still a drawing on the tower door of the devil, red-bodied, blue-tailed and wearing a yellow spiked pickelhaube helmet.
Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974
jaime_d commented on the word pickelhaube
From "Haile Selassie Funeral Train" by Guy Davenport.
January 19, 2010
knitandpurl commented on the word pickelhaube
"Irie passed her the long hat pin that was sitting on top of a butter dish. Hortense set the plastic carnations straight on her hat and stabbed them fiercely, then brought the pin back up through the felt, leaving two inches of exposed silver sticking up from the hat like a German pickelhaube."
White Teeth by Zadie Smith, p 320 of the Vintage International paperback
January 29, 2011