Sallet

//ˈsælɪt// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A type of light spherical combat helmet used in the 15th century. historical

    "At Hampton Court, sallets for archers on horseback, sallets with grates, and old sallets with vizards: At Windsor, salettes and skulls: At Calais, saletts with vysars and bevers, and salets with bevers."

  2. 2
    Archaic form of salad. alt-of, archaic, countable, uncountable

    "One ſaid there was no ſallets in the lines to make thẽ ſauory, / But called it an honeſt methode, as wholeſome as ſweete."

  3. 3
    a light medieval helmet with a slit for vision wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

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).

Etymology 2

Alternative forms.

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