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▪ I. sallet, salade Antiq.|ˈsælɪt, səˈlɑːd|
Forms: 5–8 sallet, 5–6 salett(e, salet (also 8–9 arch.), Sc. sellat, -et, (5 salectte, salate), 6 sallett(e, (-att), 6–7 sallat(e, 7 sallad(e, 5–7, 9 arch. salad(e.
[a. F. salade, ad. Sp. celada or It. celata, believed to represent L. cælāta (sc. cassis or galea), (a helmet) ornamented with engraving. Cf. MDu. salade, sallade, salla.
The L. adj. has not been found in this elliptical use. Cf. ‘loricæ galeæque aeneæ, cælatæ opere Corinthio’ (Cicero).]
1. In mediæval armour, a light globular headpiece, either with or without a vizor, and without a crest, the lower part curving outwards behind.
c1440Eng. Conq. Irel. iv. 11 (MS. Rawl.), Ham-Selfe wel wepenyd with haubergeons, and bryght Salletis and sheldys. 1465Marg. Paston in P. Lett. II. 189 Imprimis, a peyr brygandyrs, a salet, a boresper [etc.]. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. cclv. (1482) 331 He toke syr vmfreys salade and his brigantyns..and also his gylt spores and arayd hym lyke a lord. c1537Thersytes 55, I wolde have a sallet to were on my hed, Whiche under my chyn with a thonge red Buckeled shall be. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iv. xxviii. 146 b, On their heads [they] hadde sallets of leather. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iv. x. 9 Many a time but for a Sallet, my braine-pan had bene cleft with a brown Bill. 1594R. Ashley tr. Loys le Roy 113 b, The men that were heauily armed had a salade, which couered their head, and came downe as far as their shoulders. a1600Floddan F. ii. (1664) 12 Some of a share can shortly make A sallate for to save his pate. 1786Grose Anc. Armour 11 The Salade, Salet, or Celate. Father Daniel defines a Salet to be a sort of light casque, without a crest, sometimes having a visor, and being sometimes without one. 1824Meyrick Ant. Armour III. Gloss., Salett,..a light head piece sometimes worn by the cavalry, but generally by the infantry and archers. It..was generally a steel cap greatly resembling the morian. 1844James Agincourt II. v. 109 He caused his archers to put on the cuirasses and salades. 1888Stevenson Black Arrow 4 Armed with sword and spear, a steel salet on his head, a leather jack upon his body.
b. jocularly referred to as a measure for wine.
1600Heywood 1st Pt. Edw. IV (1613) C j, Make a proclamation..That..Sacke be sold by the Sallet.
†c. transf. Headpiece, head. nonce-use.
1652C. B. Stapylton Herodian 56 When Wine was got into his drunken Sallat.
†2. Some kind of iron vessel. Obs.
1472–3Rolls of Parlt. VI. 51/2 With fyere brought with theym in a Salette thider. 1507–8Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. IV. 101 Item, for ane sellat to mak gwn powdir vij s. 1582J. Hester Secr. Phiorav. iii. cxvi. 141 Sette the same potte in a Sallette of Iron, and lute them close together.
Hence † ˈsaletted a., wearing a sallet.
1455Coventry Leet Bk. (E.E.T.S.) 282 An hundred of goode-men..with bowes & arowes, Jakked & saletted. 1461J. Paston in P. Lett. II. 36 The peple was jakkyd and saletted, and riottously disposed.
▪ II. sallet, sallfe
obs. forms of salad, salve. |