sallet

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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).

Noun

sallet (plural sallets)

1. (historical) A type of light spherical helmet, also sometimes called a salade or celate.
   • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 11.

     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.

Translations

type of light spherical helmet

• French: salade (fr) f
• Ido: chelato (io)

• Spanish: celada (es) f

Etymology 2

Alternative forms.

Noun

sallet (plural sallets)

1. Archaic form of salad.
   • 1602 : Hamlet by William Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2 lines 378-383

     I remember one said

     there were no sallets in the lines to make the matter

     savoury nor no matter in the phrase that might indict

     the author of affection, but called it an honest method,

     as wholesome as sweet, and by very much more

     handsome than fine.

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