blue helmet

noun

: a soldier who is a United Nations peace-keeper and who wears the distinctive light blue helmet worn by such peace-keepers

The blue helmets are in the West African country of Sierra Leone to help administer a peace agreement signed last July.

—Tom Masland et al., Newsweek, 15 May 2000

Word History

First Known Use

1956, in the meaning defined above

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