sallet

American  

[sal-it] / ˈsæl ɪt /

noun

Armor.

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

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sallet British  

/ ˈsælɪt /

noun

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

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Etymology

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 -ate ¹

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Example Sentences

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sallet

And with us the ruddy Solanum has obtained a wide popularity not simply at table as a tasty cooling sallet, or an appetising stew, but essentially as a supposed antibilious purifier of the blood.

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie

Ursula wore that day a hauberk under her gown, and was helmed with a sallet; and because of her armour she rode upon a little horse.

From The Well at the World's End: a tale by William Morris

Now all King Christopher's men were afoot, saving a band of the riders of Brimside, who bestrode strong and tall horses, and bore jack and sallet and spear, but no heavy armour.

From Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair by William Morris

On de plantation dey had big gyardens whar dey raised heaps of cabbages, potatoes, colla'd greens, turnip sallet, onions, peas, rutabagas, and pun'kins and sech lak.

From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 by Work Projects Administration

‘Tastes not well joined, inelegant,’ as our Paradisian bard directs Eve, when dressing a sallet for her angelical guest, in Milton’s Paradise Lost.”

From The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual by William Kitchiner

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