Sallet

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).

Full definition of sallet

Noun

1. (historical) A type of light spherical helmet
• 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.

Synonyms

• celate,

Alternative forms.

Noun

• 1602 : by William Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2 lines 378-383I remember one saidthere were no sallets in the lines to make the mattersavoury nor no matter in the phrase that might indictthe author of affection, but called it an honest method,as wholesome as sweet, and by very much morehandsome than fine.

Anagrams

• all set
• Stella