sallet
Americannoun
noun
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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Wouldst thou have a sallet now? all the herbs are dead!
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by William Carew Hazlitt
La Mole looked around, but saw only his landlord standing behind him with folded arms and wearing on his head the sallet which he had seen him polishing the moment before.
From Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas père
Ralph laughed; for by this time he knew the voice of the King, yea, and the face of him under his sallet.
From The Well at the World's End: a tale by William Morris
Wherefore, on a brick-wall have I climbed into this garden, to see if I can eat grass, or pick a sallet another while, which is not amiss to cool a man's stomach this hot weather.
From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs
Do on thy sallet, my lord; and thou, Michael-a-green shake out the Bull; and thou, our Noise, blow a point of war that they may be warned.
From The Well at the World's End: a tale by William Morris
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