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policeman's helmet

British  

noun

  1. a Himalayan balsaminaceous plant, Impatiens glandulifera, with large purplish-pink flowers, introduced into Britain

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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A policeman’s helmet, and several items marking his association with blindness charities.

From The Guardian • Oct. 12, 2014

Another clown in a striped T shirt and psychedelic wig paused from time to time to give lawnmowers, car windshields, even a motorcycle policeman's helmet a few flicks with his bright red feather duster.

From Time Magazine Archive

You will enter it, bring out a hat and cloak, come into the cab, and I shall put them on, leaving my policeman’s helmet in the cab, which will wait. 

From The Disentanglers by Lang, Andrew

The man started toward Orme, as if to investigate, and then Orme noticed that outlined on his head was a policeman’s helmet.

From The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure by Merwin, Bannister

It was a man with brass buttons and policeman’s helmet.

From The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure by Merwin, Bannister

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