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Sallet
//ˈsælɪt// noun
Definitions
Noun
- 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 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 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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