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sallet
[ sal-it ]
noun
, Armor.
- a light medieval helmet, usually with a vision slit or a movable visor.
sallet
/ ˈsælɪt /
noun
- a light round helmet extending over the back of the neck; replaced the basinet in the 15th century
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sallet1
C15: from French salade, probably from Old Italian celata, from celare to conceal, from Latin
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Example Sentences
What variety of herbs soever are shufed together in the dish, yet the whole mass is swallowed up under one name of a sallet.
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Galen (whoſe beloved Sallet it was) from its pinguid, ſubdulcid and agreeable Nature, ſays it breeds the moſt laudable Blood.
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During the fourteenth century a new kind of helmet arose, called in England the "sallad," or "sallet."
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It quite frightened her, not knowing that Unity Sallet was in the waggon likewise.
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Unity Sallet is there too—yes, at the other end, under the tarpaulin.
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