Meaning of sallet | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A type of light spherical combat helmet used in the 15th century.
   historical
2. Archaic form of salad.
   alt-of, archaic, countable, uncountable

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Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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 […]”

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