sallet

[ sal-it ]

/ ˈsæl ɪt /

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noun Armor.

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

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Also salade.

Origin of sallet

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); see -ate¹

Words nearby sallet

Salk, Salk vaccine, salle à manger, sallee, sallenders, sallet, sallow, sallowy, Sallust, sally, Sally Army

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How to use sallet in a sentence

What variety of herbs soever are shufed together in the dish, yet the whole mass is swallowed up under one name of a sallet.
The Essays of Montaigne, Complete|Michel de Montaigne
Galen (whoſe beloved Sallet it was) from its pinguid, ſubdulcid and agreeable Nature, ſays it breeds the moſt laudable Blood.
Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets|John Evelyn
During the fourteenth century a new kind of helmet arose, called in England the "sallad," or "sallet."
A Complete Guide to Heraldry|Arthur Charles Fox-Davies
It quite frightened her, not knowing that Unity Sallet was in the waggon likewise.
Life's Little Ironies|Thomas Hardy

Unity Sallet is there too—yes, at the other end, under the tarpaulin.
Life's Little Ironies|Thomas Hardy

British Dictionary definitions for sallet

sallet

salet salade

/ (ˈsælɪt) /

noun

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

Word Origin for sallet

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

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