Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A light, late medieval helmet with a brim flaring in the back, sometimes fitted with a visor.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Lettuce, Lactuca sativa.
- noun An obsolete form of
salad . - noun A kind of helmet, first introduced at the beginning of the fifteenth century, lighter than the helm, and having an intermediary form between this and the chapel-de-fer.
- noun As much as a sallet will hold.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A light kind of helmet, with or without a visor, introduced during the 15th century.
- noun obsolete Salad.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Archaic form of
salad . - noun historical A type of light spherical
helmet , also sometimes called asalade orcelate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a light medieval helmet with a slit for vision
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And, I think, this word sallet was born to do me good: for, many a time, but for a sallet, my brain-pan had been cleft with a brown bill; and, many a time, when I have been dry, and bravely marching, it hath served me instead of a quart-pot to drink in; and now the word sallet must serve me to feed on.
Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas
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For starters, we'll have a "sallet" -- salad -- from Margaret Huntington Hooker's 1896 book, "Early American Cookery," reprinted in 1981 by Americana Review.
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III. -- and find at their place of supper nothing but a 'sallet' and two or three bones of mutton provided for ten of us, 'which was very strange.
The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 Philip Wharton 1847
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And I think this word 'sallet' was born to do me good: for many a time, but for a sallet, my brainpan had been cleft with a brown bill; and many a time, when I have been dry and bravely marching, it hath served me instead of a quart pot to drink in; and now the word 'sallet' must serve me to feed on.
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I realized that maybe once a week for breakfast or lunch I eat a poke sallet-like dish — a kind of spinach frittata that is more spinach than egg.
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“The Allens” line of canned vegetables still included canned ‘poke sallet greens’ till just a few years ago.
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Next, notice the helmet, the Duc d'Alencon specifically remarks that her helmet he calls it a calotte a sallet had no visor.
The Maids Armor de Brantigny........................ 2008
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The typical later 15th-centuy (Wars of the Roses era) knightly headwear is the sallet and bevor combo.
Long Tall Sallet zornhau 2006
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Next, notice the helmet, the Duc d'Alencon specifically remarks that her helmet he calls it a calotte a sallet had no visor.
Archive 2008-02-24 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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I do look now for a Spanish fig, or an Italian sallet, daily.
The White Devil 2007
chained_bear commented on the word sallet
This bugged me for a while until I found the word I was thinking of instead: solleret. (Not related, really, except that they're both medieval armor-type thingies.)
August 1, 2009