sallet

• IPA^(key): /ˈsælɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ælɪt

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).

sallet (plural sallets)

1. (historical) A type of light spherical combat helmet used in the 15th century.
   • 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.

   • 1896, William Morris, chapter 29, in The Well at the World's End‎^[1], volume II, London, New York, and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., book IV, page 258:

     Ursula wore that day a hauberk under her gown, and was helmed with a sallet; and because of her armour she rode upon a little horse.

• salet, salade, celate

Alternative forms.

sallet (countable and uncountable, plural sallets)

1. Archaic form of salad.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell, published 1603, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], signatures E3, verso – [E4], recto:

     One ſaid there was no ſallets in the lines to make thẽ ſauory, / But called it an honeſt methode, as wholeſome as ſweete.

   • 1682, A perfect school of Instructions for the Officers of the Mouth:

     To make Sallet of Lemon pill, or green Citron. You must have your Lemon Pill preserved very green, Rasp it into a Dish, and raise it up lightly with a Fork […]

• stella, Tealls, Stella, all set