Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
sallet .
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- noun A
helmet , also sometimes called asalade orcelate .
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Examples
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At dinner time de cook at de big house cooked nuff turnip salet, beans, 'taters, er peas fer all de han's an' long wid a little piece of meat an 'a little hunk of co'nbread de dinner wus sont ter de slaves out in de fiel' on a cart.
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And afterward they ordered again their battles: then every man lay down on the earth and by him his salet and bow, to be the more fresher when their enemies should come.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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And afterward they ordered again their battles: then every man lay down on the earth and by him his salet and bow, to be the more fresher when their enemies should come.
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Just then the bridge rang under horse-shoe iron, and the party turned and saw Bennet Hatch come galloping -- a brown-faced, grizzled fellow, heavy of hand and grim of mien, armed with sword and spear, a steel salet on his head, a leather jack upon his body.
The Black Arrow Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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His dash, his proved courage, his forethought for the soldiers 'comfort, even his rough gibes, were all to the taste of the bold blades in jack and salet.
The Black Arrow Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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Hatch meanwhile reverently doffed his salet and knelt down.
The Black Arrow Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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At the same time, in a tall man with a steel salet, who was spreading his hands before the blaze, he recognised his old friend and still kindly enemy,
The Black Arrow Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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Sheep suet, half a pound of Deer suet, a quart of salet oil beat well in
Tales and Novels — Volume 05 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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And afterward they ordered again their battles: then every man lay down on the earth and by him his salet and bow, to be the more fresher when their enemies should come.
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189 Imprimis, a peyr brygandyrs, a salet, a boresper [etc.].
Medallion Vulcan | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009
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