salade

[ suh-lahd, sal-uhd ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Armor.

salade

/ səˈlɑːd /

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The wearing of the bascinet, salade, burgonet, and like helmets needs no detailed description.

The Armet, or close helmet, followed the salade, and is mentioned by Oliver de la Marche as early as 1443.

More modest decoration was obtained by covering the salade with velvet and fixing ornaments over this of gilded iron or brass.

No plume or nobloy fluttered from his plain tilting salade, and even his lance was devoid of the customary banderole.

I am convinced that a blow given with it on a head armed with a salade would stun a man.

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