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Pickelhaube
Pickelhaube
See also: pickelhaube
German
Noun
Pickelhaube f (genitive Pickelhaube, plural Pickelhauben)
Declension
Declension of Pickelhaube
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
| nominative | eine | die | Pickelhaube | die | Pickelhauben |
| genitive | einer | der | Pickelhaube | der | Pickelhauben |
| dative | einer | der | Pickelhaube | den | Pickelhauben |
| accusative | eine | die | Pickelhaube | die | Pickelhauben |
pickelhaube
pickelhaube
See also: Pickelhaube
English
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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