How To Use pickelhaube In A Sentence
- 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
- And look at that one over there, wearing that beautiful waste-paper basket on his head like a pickelhaube!
- An additional distinction of this very rare pickelhaube is to be found in the special "bosses" used to attach the officer's brass scale chinstrap to the helmet skull.
- The pickelhaube was originally designed in 1842 by King Frederick William IV of Prussia. and its use slowly spread to other German principalities.
- This, I think, is the meaning of Rooster's pickelhaube. Eamon Murphy: Theater Review: Jerusalem
- Few relics of military history are as striking as the German Pickelhaube.
- This helmet is missing its topspitze, or "spiked adornment," for which this type of helmet is named pickelhaube, or "pick cap."
- 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
- [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
