sallet
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See also: sållet
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈsælɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ælɪt
Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle French salade, from Spanish celada, thought to be from Latin caelāta (“ornamentally engraved (helmet)”) (although the Latin word is not attested in this sense).
Noun
[edit]sallet (plural sallets)
- (historical) A type of light spherical combat helmet used in the 15th century.
- 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 11:
- 1896, William Morris, chapter 29, in The Well at the World's End[1], volume II, London, New York, and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., book IV, page 258:
- 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.
Alternative forms
[edit]Translations
[edit]type of light spherical helmet
Etymology 2
[edit]Alternative forms.
Noun
[edit]sallet (countable and uncountable, plural sallets)
- Archaic form of salad.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell, published 1603, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], signatures E3, verso – [E4], recto:
- One ſaid there was no ſallets in the lines to make thẽ ſauory, / But called it an honeſt methode, as wholeſome as ſweete.
- 1682, A perfect school of Instructions for the Officers of the Mouth:
- To make Sallet of Lemon pill, or green Citron. You must have your Lemon Pill preserved very green, Rasp it into a Dish, and raise it up lightly with a Fork […]
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