English
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Alternative spellings
Also salet, salette, and salett.
Noun
sallet (plural: sallets)
- obsolete spicy information
#A helmet, also sometimes called a salade or celate.
Quotations
;spicy information
1602 : s:Hamlet|Hamlet by w:William Shakespeare|William Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2 lines 378-383
;helmet
1786, w:Francis Grose|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.
io:sallet
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