| 单词 |
pickelhaube |
| 释义 |
‖ pickelhaube|pɪkəlˈhaʊbə|
Also pickel-haube (with hyphen) and with capital initial. Pl. pickel-hauben, pickelhaubes.
[G.]
A German spiked helmet of a type worn esp. before and during the earlier part of the war of 1914–18. Also, by metonymy, a German soldier.
1875Encycl. Brit. II. 596/2 The [Prussian] uniform is a dark blue tunic, grey trousers with red stripe, helmet of black leather with brass ornaments and spike (Pickel⁓haube). 1880G. A. Sala Amer. Revisited 213/2 The brutal jest of the cynical master of so many thousands of stolid men with needle-guns and pickelhaubes [sc. Bismarck] could turn all into mockery and contempt! 1887Athenæum 1 Jan. 16/1 Here is represented the old Empire with powder and wigs, while in Julius Grosse's novel..we find the new Empire with its Pickelhaube. 1890Times (Weekly ed.) 28 Feb. 16/1 A dragoon regiment with pickelhaube helmet. 1901Scotsman 29 Nov. 5/4 Germany is defied in a manner fitted to stiffen the pickelhauben of the General Staff. 1927Bulletin (Glasgow) 4 Oct. 12/2 A German officer's silver-plated pickel-haube. 1931E. Linklater Juan in Amer. ii. xvii. 181 Prussian wombs bore pickel⁓haubes. 1969G. Coppard With Machine Gun to Combrai xxi. 89 A dozen Jerry soldiers... The pickelhaubes on their heads made them look a leering bunch of devils. 1972M. Glenny tr. Solzhenitsyn's August 1914 xxv. 260 Even when the Pickelhauben were no more than a hundred yards away, the Russians showed no fear. 1976Leicester Chron. 26 Nov. 14/5 The first distinctive German steel helmets were introduced in 1916 as a replacement for the pickelhaube, and other armies quickly followed suit. |
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