salade

• IPA^(key): /səˈlɑːd/
• Rhymes: -ɑːd

From Old French [Term?].

salade (plural salades)

1. Alternative form of sallet, a kind of helmet.
   • 1891, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, The White Company, New York, N.Y., Boston, Mass.: Thomas Y[oung] Crowell & Company […], →OCLC, page 297:

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

salade (plural salades)

1. Obsolete form of salad.
   • a. 1834, Charles Lamb, Curious Fragments extracted from a common-place book, which belonged to Robert Burton […] :

     This morning, May 2, 1662, having first broken my fast upon eggs and cooling salades, mellows, watercresses […]

• “salade”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): /saːˈlaːdə/

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• Hyphenation: sa‧la‧de
• Rhymes: -aːdə

Borrowed from Middle French salade, from Italian salata.

salade f (plural salades, diminutive saladetje n)

1. salad (a food made primarily of a mixture of raw ingredients, typically vegetables)
2. (archaic) lettuce
   • 1654 July 8, Jan van Riebeeck, Daghregister, part 1, page 238:

     Bij welcke missive vernemende hare veelvoudige siecken ende grooten noodt om verversinge, lieten datelijck een mande met salade ende 2 goede sacken vol cool gereet maecken, daer se
     den 9en do., fraij labber uijtte N.Westen coelende, 'smorgens vroegh weder mede na boort sonden, nevens 't navolgende briefken, luijdende van woorde te woorde als volcht:

     Learning by means of this missive of their manifold sickpeople and great need for refreshment, [we] immediately let a basket of lettuce and 2 good bags full of cabbage be prepared, so that [we] / sent them along, on the 9th of the same month, [the wind] blowing rather softly from the North West, on board again in the early morning, beside the following letter, reading word by word as follows:

• eiersalade
• huzarensalade
• sla
• komkommersalade

• Negerhollands: salae, sala
• → Munsee: shuláash
• → Indonesian: selada
• → Javanese: ꦱꦼꦭꦠ꧀ (selat)
  • → Indonesian: selat

From Middle Dutch salade, from Middle French salade, from Old French salade.

salade f (plural salades)

1. a sallet, a salade (certain type of round helmet)

• sallade (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): /sa.lad/

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From Northern Italian salada, salata (compare insalata), from Vulgar Latin *salāta, from *salō, from Latin saliō, from sal (“salt”).

salade f (plural salades)

1. salad (raw vegetables in general)
2. salad (a serving of raw vegetables)
3. (colloquial, in the plural, uncountable) bullshit, nonsense

   raconter des salades

   to talk nonsense

• → Persian: سالاد (sâlâd)
• → Russian: сала́т (salát)
  • → Kazakh: салат (salat)
• → Ukrainian: сала́т (salát)
• → Vietnamese: xà lách, xa-lát

Borrowed from Italian celata, from Latin caelata.

salade f (plural salades)

1. (historical) sallet

• “salade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• dealas

• salat, saled

Borrowed from Old French salade, from Italian salada, which some forms are directly from.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsalad(ə)/, /ˈsalat(ə)/, /ˈsaləd(ə)/

salade (plural saladys)

1. (Late Middle English, rare) salad (dish made of mixed vegetables)
2. (Late Middle English, rare) An ingredient in a salad.

• English: salad
• Scots: sallet

• “salade, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 30 July 2018.

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salade f (uncountable)

1. (Jersey) burnet