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sallet
[ sal-it ]
noun
- a light medieval helmet, usually with a vision slit or a movable visor.
sallet
/ ˈsælɪt /
noun
- a light round helmet extending over the back of the neck; replaced the basinet in the 15th century
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Origin of sallet1
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Example Sentences
What variety of herbs soever are shufed together in the dish, yet the whole mass is swallowed up under one name of a sallet.
Galen (whoſe beloved Sallet it was) from its pinguid, ſubdulcid and agreeable Nature, ſays it breeds the moſt laudable Blood.
During the fourteenth century a new kind of helmet arose, called in England the "sallad," or "sallet."
It quite frightened her, not knowing that Unity Sallet was in the waggon likewise.
Unity Sallet is there too—yes, at the other end, under the tarpaulin.
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