sallet

[ sal-it ]

noun

, Armor.

1. a light medieval helmet, usually with a vision slit or a movable visor.

sallet

/ ˈsælɪt /

noun

1. a light round helmet extending over the back of the neck; replaced the basinet in the 15th century

Word History and Origins

Origin of sallet¹

1400–50; late Middle English, variant of salade < Middle French < Spanish celada (or Italian celata ) < Latin caelāta ( cassis ) engraved (helmet), feminine of caelātus (past participle of caelāre to engrave); -ate ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of sallet¹

C15: from French salade, probably from Old Italian celata, from celare to conceal, from Latin

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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