sallet

[ sal-it ]

noun

, Armor.

1. a light medieval helmet, usually with a vision slit or a movable visor.

sallet

/ ˈsælɪt /

noun

1. a light round helmet extending over the back of the neck; replaced the basinet in the 15th century

Word History and Origins

Origin of sallet¹

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); -ate ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of sallet¹

C15: from French salade, probably from Old Italian celata, from celare to conceal, from Latin

Example Sentences

Soon after the beginning of the 15th century the high-crowned basinet gave place to the salade or sallet, a helmet with a low rounded crown and a long brim or neck-guard at the back.

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Never was such a chap for sallets and the like.”

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Sooth, not greatly needful, only as your sallet to your great feast, to entertain a little more time, and to abridge the not received custom of music in our theatre.”

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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.

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‘Tastes not well joined, inelegant,’ as our Paradisian bard directs Eve, when dressing a sallet for her angelical guest, in Milton’s Paradise Lost.”

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